Althea Murphy-Price

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I question the truth behind the desire for fascination, and the impulse of attraction in human perception. By addressing deception and ornamentation, I acknowledge the role of embellishment in feminine and racial identities to magnify the typically overlooked individual, making them a rare, and treasured specimen. Although preserved and celebrated in the eyes of their onlookers they are not protected. 

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About the Artist

Althea Murphy-Price (b.1979, San Jose, California) Has been recognized for her broad approach to printed media through the use of photography, 3D printing and printmaking methods.  Her variable practice often involves decoration, embellishment and the representation of familiar objects. 

 Her works have been exhibited widely throughout the country and internationally in citites such as Spain, China, Japan, Italy and Sweden.  She is included in multiple public collections as of the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Brandywine Print Achieves, Farfield 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 currently a Professsor at the Univeristy of Tennesse where she has taught printing 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.

Artist Statement

I question the truth behind the desire for fascination, and the impulse of attraction in human perception. By addressing deception and ornamentation, I acknowledge the role of embellishment in feminine and racial identities to magnify the typically overlooked individual, making them a rare, and treasured specimen. Although preserved and celebrated in the eyes of their onlookers they are not protected.