VIEW IN MY ROOM
United States
Painting, Gouache on Wood
Size: 36 W x 48 H x 2 D in
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This painting imagines a far away realm, in the not so very distant future, where womxn with traumatic pasts magically grow into giants. Though fearsome, the giantesses are not the villains of the land. The horror lies in the suggestion of brutality left outside the frame. Even though the specific acts of terror are undefined, Meg asks for the abstraction of trauma to be held tight while viewing her figures hovering within and above domestic spaces. If the viewer and painter can agree it is there as a subject, the violence creates a ghostly glaze over the matte gouache paint. Flowers follow the lead of the giants’ bodies. The figures weave together amidst purple asters that urgently curl into limbs and fingers. A wildness closes in on the world of the paintings, suggesting a manic and urgent tone that clashes with the languid and regal poses of the womxn. In the technicolor fantasy of Meg’s paintings, once womxn are finally big enough to hold pain without consequence, they will invite a new (dream)world order.
Painting:Gouache on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36 W x 48 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United States.
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Artist Meg Lionel Murphy’s paintings are informed by debilitating PTSD from severe domestic violence. Over the past few years, she has compulsively painted heartbroken femmes that magically grow larger, stronger, and scarier than the world around them. As the paintings grow in number, she grows just a little larger, stronger, and scarier too. Meg works from rural Wisconsin. She splits her time painting between a little blue shack in a junkyard and the storefront artist collective, The Yellow Room.
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