Althea Murphy-Price (b.1979, San Jose, California) 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. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the country and internationally including in Spain, China, Japan, Italy and Sweden. She is included in multiple public collections such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, Knoxville Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Brandywine Print Achieves, Fairfield 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 lives and works in Knoxville, TN, where she is a Professor at the University of Tennessee.
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.
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