Jean Murphy
Jean (°1962, Jersey City, United States) is an artist who mainly works with painting. Her works are based on surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric, humoristic elements. Murphy makes works that can be seen as self-portraits.
Her paintings are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They sometimes appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem startlingly steady and conventional. She formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works.
Her works often refers to pop and mass culture. Using bold painted symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. Jean currently lives and works in South Jersey.
Her paintings are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They sometimes appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem startlingly steady and conventional. She formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works.
Her works often refers to pop and mass culture. Using bold painted symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. Jean currently lives and works in South Jersey.