Monday, February 6, 2012



            The artist I have chosen whose work is process-focused and non-objective is Patrick Murphy, whose work was on display this past fall at UT Dallas.  The top photo is one of the pieces that was in the show.  While Murphy does do artwork that is objective and may not fall into this category, much of his work does.  These two photos are abstract polaroids that Murphy creates by taking apart his camera and manipulating it so that it screws with the image that is produced.  This is his focus on process, because he has physically manipulated the photos and rewritten the usual "process" of the camera and the images are not representational of their subject.  This process of "rewiring" the camera creates beautiful non-objective images, each one completely unique.  Although this process is not what we are focusing on in class (because it is photography not drawing), these works are very interesting to me because I feel that the concept behind them (the reworking of a certain convention) as well as the beauty of the final product can inspire me in the conceptual work we are doing in class.


http://www.patrickmurphystudio.co.uk/

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