~LUKE MURPHY . . ‘INDUSTRIAL INCANDESCENT’ / PIX FROM THE OPENING . . with a side of ARCHIVAL PHIL
LUKE MURPHY . . ‘INDUSTRIAL INCANDESCENT’
up thru . . . SAT OCT 22, 2022
CANADA, 60 LISPENARD ST, NYC 10013
PIX FROM THE OPENING SEPT 8, 2022 – PHOTOS BY NANCY SMITH
LUKE MURPHY at the opening of ‘Industrial Incandescent’, SEPT 8, 2022.
“Like a painter with a palette covered with oil paint, Murphy uses computer code to deepen a blue or lighten a red. The ambition in Murphy’s project is to recreate the qualities of abstract painting and sculpture with the completely miraculous yet banal materials of coffee carts & 99 cent store advertising. Murphy gently moves us towards human warmth through plastic advertising panels, binary computer code, and his respect for labor and craft.”
~CANADA GALLERY, Instagram @canada.nyc
LUKE MURPHY,’Widening Gyre’, 2022
Steel studs, LED matrix panels, video driver hardware, softwae, power supplies, PC, code.
103 x 48 x 48 in.
this is Luke’s 5th solo show at CANADA, “Murphy’s dazzling light sculptures are comprised of LED panels, found objects & constructed armatures . . (he) uses the panels to display abstract effects utilizing nearly endless color & tempo variations, foregrounding the furtive beauty hidden in mass-produced display.”
~CANADA GALLERY, Instagram @canada.nyc
detail, ‘Widening Gyre’.
for a moment of intense shock, over my shoulder . . .
I thought . . an old wooden ladder – was ablaze !!
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Line Through Ladder (Fire Exchange)’, 2021.
Ladder (20th c.), barn sills (19th c.), steel studs, LED matrix panels, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC code.
the hardware is a repurposed video conference computer.
68 x 38 x 37 in.
on the wall, ‘Open Circuit’ . . absolutely stunning: the minimalism, the height, the curious elongated shape, the other-worldliness in a simple skinny, skinny arc. an animated gesture, a kind of primal right-angled, steep roofed . . brushstroke – which shifts gently between the pink / blue colors of our American sunset.
note: the brightly colored reflective light – thrown upon the gallery floor.
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Open Circuit’, 2022.
Steel armature, LED matrix panels, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC, code.
120 x 20 x 4 in.
also minimalist, yet emotive . . to the full.
also pulsing between pink & blue, a shimmer of orange.
sparkles burst, and origami paper patterns twirl.
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Tower Pattern’, 2022.
LED matrix panels, metal studs, armature, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC, code.
75-1/2 x 7-1/2 x 7-1/2 in.
a ‘moving’ pattern – on a wall, beckons.
patterns: the origin of all understanding / even before there were words, there were: seasons. constellations, sunrises . . and sunsets.
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Corner Beans’, 2022.
LED matrix panels, metal studs, armature, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC, code.
96 x 54 x 48 in.
LUKE MURPHY: ‘These new works try to get at the thingness of light images.I am trying to get at that emotional or psychological response that painting, and sculpture can produce – that kind of urgent beauty or aching that has no locale & inexorably compels more looking and thinking , which doogotal images sometimes fail to achieve.”
~ CANADA GALLERY INSTAGRAM @canadanewyork
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Corner Beams’.
LUKE MURPHY, ‘Corner Beams’.
gallery-wise: PHIL GRAUER of CANADA, and LUKE confer, on the left.
fashion-wise: 2 great skirts . . flutter.
speaking about . . flutter /
here’s a flashback – from the artlovers archive . . . !!
PHIL GRAUER, co-founder of CANADA at an early opening, when the gallery was located in Chinatown. MARCH 6, 2004.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH / artloversnewyork
first published on artnet, in the Magazine, People section / SPRING 2004.
see: the original report
ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH