NHSO Art Violin Project on display at: Maximus Antiques, 143 Main St, Old Saybrook

 

Playing House

Caitlin Brennan Murphy
Bethany, CT

Having studied at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), I was exposed to and encouraged to explore many mediums. Because of this, I have developed a wide range of artistic interests. My work melds painting, collage, sculpture, film, ceramics, and fashion. Together, they explore preoccupations of time’s passage, femininity, dimension, the natural world, and the military– the individual; the soldier. More specifically, the soldier as machine, soldier as ghost, soldier as a costume with real eyes. My work manages to maintain a unified and cohesive whole- not by the subject matter necessarily, but instead by the consistent emphasis on texture, and layered richness. My dexterity with materials allows for unlikely couplings such as latex with tea, and chicken wire with fur. I want to engage and stimulate the senses. I want the viewer to want to feel my surfaces, to salivate when looking at the slick, glossy places. My hope is that color, texture and captured time entice the viewer to linger- seeing more than just unconventional materials. Ultimately, I want to relieve myself of personal preoccupations, and to have their presence represented only as flickers. The flickers layered within an alluring collective. Push and pull, attract and repulse, bewitch and disillusion.