Exhibitions

THE GREAT SOUTHERN BOX SHOW

Clem Allison Gallery (Tusculum University) / 9 Shiloh Rd., 377, Tusculum , TN September 27 - October 25th

Katie Murphy

In The Great Southern Box Show, I spend time examining my familial and cultural heritage. The boxes that I am painting on are ones that I have been assembling with my hands since childhood as products from my grandfather and father’s careers in selling corrugated boxes. In working with these objects, I access my lived experience and continue my considerations around containers and containment. The paintings become evidence and a record of my interior experience as well as marks of time from my embodied practice. I choose certain formal constraints for myself such as working on waxed cardboard or working within a color family and then open my practice to see what can happen. For me, it is a time based practice, but the art object itself exists as evidence of that time.