Althea Murphy-Price's artistic practice intersects various methods of printmaking, photography, and sculpture. Through her creative studio work, Murphy-Price shares research that explores themes of femininity, racial identity, and perception, investigated through material choice and experimental processes. The inherent duality of print serves as a platform to examine these concepts through the lens of deception. She attempts to recreate familiar objects inspired by her own racial and feminine identity, that question and challenge ideas of authenticity and representation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Althea Murphy-Price’s variable practice often involves printmaking, photography, and sculpture. The inherent duality of print provides a platform to explore these characteristics under the lens of deception. Motifs of race, hair culture and feminine identity serve as tools of decoration. Bright colors, shiny surfaces, texture, and dimensional forms extend off the page in suggestion of play, celebration, analysis, and injury. Her works have been exhibited in cities such as Spain, China, Japan, Italy and Sweden. She is included in public collections such as the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Brandywine Print Achieves, Fairfield University Art Museum, the Bush Art Center, Bernard A. Zukerman Museum of Art, and Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in such publications as Art Papers Magazine, Art in Print Magazine, Printmaking Today (UK), CAA Reviews Journal, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process, and Printmakers Today. Murphy-Price is a Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee where she has taught printmaking since 2010. She received her BA in Fine Art from Spelman College, her MA in Printmaking and Painting from Purdue University and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Website: www.altheamurphyprice.com
Instagram: @altheamurphyprice
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Part of the School of Art & Design's Visiting Artists series.
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
