May 10th, 2021

Are you ready to crack the bat at the first games of Spring?

We sure are! We have fresh new paintings from Pamela Murphy (WI) that herald the beginnings of the season of renewal. One of the paintings features a metallic copper background and players from Park City; Murphy selects photographs from the Park City Historical Society’s catalog to use within her paintings for us. We love sharing her pieces that captures stories and figures from our mining town’s past.

See more works by Pamela Murphy on her webpage.

ARTIST: PAMELA MURPHY

TITLE: HOME TEAM

MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING

SIZE: 36″ x 46″

PRICE: $7,050

From the artist:

I collect old photographs and choose figures from them for my paintings. The people whose lives are recorded in those pictures are strangers, yet they are familiar to all of us and remind us of ourselves and our families. Many layers of paint reveal the history of the canvas and create a space that serves to isolate the form of each figure. My subjects have been disconnected from their original context and are recreated as icons for the viewer’s personal connection. Each viewer brings with them their own specific history, so a single image can mean different things to different people. The figures in my paintings exist in situations—or as objects—in which I hope the viewer will find a little of themselves.

In some of my new work, I focus on animals and old barns and houses rather than people. In some of those paintings I use silhouette to explore another facet of form. The solid, simple, black shapes convey a surprising amount of information and can be read either as negative space or as positive and dimensional. They are a strong visual contrast to the distressed and textured background; the detailed linear elements of the botanical transfers; the areas of bright color and gold leaf; all of which combined offer the viewer a visually rich and interesting surface with potential narrative content.

 

ARTIST: PAMELA MURPHY

TITLE: INCONSPICUOUS

MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING

SIZE: 20″ x 18″

PRICE: $2,175