Erin Murray, "Sine Cera"

Artist Statement

My work explores subtle aspects of lived experience with a practice rooted in drawing. With tactile surfaces and "breathable" space, I aim to convey a bodily experience of architectural image and space—one that allows for things like peripherality, haptic feedback, weighted details, personal associations and the influence of reverie. In the process I draw out the innately human characteristics of our decorative habits, ranging from the transcendent to the absurd. Ultimately my aim is to hold the sharp palpability of lived experience in balance with its ephemeral dimension, highlighting the embodied nature and empathetic possibilities of the constructed world.

Artist Bio

Erin Murray earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has since exhibited widely in cities across the country, most recently at HOLDING Contemporary (Portland, OR) Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA) and Harpy Gallery (Rutherford, NJ) She is a current 2020/21 Drawing Center Viewing Program participant, and in 2018 she received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has previously been honored with the West Collects acquisition prize, the Fleisher Wind Challenge Exhibition Grant and a Center for Emerging Visual Artists fellowship. She recently spent five years as a member of the artist-run collective Vox Populi in Philadelphia, the city where she lives and works with her partner and two young sons.

Sine Cera, shellac ink and graphite on paper, 13 1/2" x 13 1/2", 2021, $250