About The Work
PIGEON FLIGHT is artist Deirdre Murphy's to her experiences in South Philadelphia, visiting Columbus Square Park with its mid-century modern architectural community center built by one of Philadelphia’s first female architects, Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher. Pierre Bonnard’s tiled bathrooms were on her mind. Philadelphia pigeons symbolize the city for Murphy.
"As an artist, my paintings, prints, sculpture and public art are made with the attentiveness of a scientist, observing our natural world beyond the visible surface. My interest lies in the interconnected qualities of art and science, specifically the micro / macro patterns that reveal our connectedness; be it migratory avian flight patterns shared commonality with immigration routes, or how light pollution maps mirror viral molecular patterns, or aerial views of watershed systems that reveal vascular patterns. Through the act of creating, I am aware of being both infinitesimally minute and integrally part of a larger whole. It is this dichotomy and the vastness of these images that provides perspective to our humanity."
- Deirdre Murphy
Courtesy of Susanna W. Gold, PhD
About Deirdre Murphy
From The Magazine
Painting
Oil on canvas
40.00 x 40.00 x 1.50 in
101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm
This painting is signed on the back.
About The Work
PIGEON FLIGHT is artist Deirdre Murphy's to her experiences in South Philadelphia, visiting Columbus Square Park with its mid-century modern architectural community center built by one of Philadelphia’s first female architects, Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher. Pierre Bonnard’s tiled bathrooms were on her mind. Philadelphia pigeons symbolize the city for Murphy.
"As an artist, my paintings, prints, sculpture and public art are made with the attentiveness of a scientist, observing our natural world beyond the visible surface. My interest lies in the interconnected qualities of art and science, specifically the micro / macro patterns that reveal our connectedness; be it migratory avian flight patterns shared commonality with immigration routes, or how light pollution maps mirror viral molecular patterns, or aerial views of watershed systems that reveal vascular patterns. Through the act of creating, I am aware of being both infinitesimally minute and integrally part of a larger whole. It is this dichotomy and the vastness of these images that provides perspective to our humanity."
- Deirdre Murphy
Courtesy of Susanna W. Gold, PhD
About Deirdre Murphy
From The Magazine
This painting has been exhibited at Main Line Art Center in Haverford, PA.
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