Manica Deprica
New York, NY 2021
Los Angeles, CA 2022
Curator: Indira Cesarine
Spring/Break HEARSAY:HERESY
Installation View
The Paintings placed in the land of Manica Deprica depict dreamy, haunted rituals with a medieval edge. Bodies are menaced by tiny men and their demons. These paintings were made for solo booth shows at both Spring/Break New York 2021 and Los Angeles 2022.
Show Description, continued:
Just as early Christians used Pagan symbols to build a practice of worship, Murphy weaves Catholic—specifically Marian—imagery into her work, stripping parts of it back to it’s most magical, witchy, feminist roots. She is fascinated with religious art, and mines it for traces of traumatic experience illustrated by metaphor.
Installation View