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Choices, Choices, 2011
Oil on plywood
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Erin Murray: Municipalia
Beckler Family Members Gallery
March 2 - June 3, 2012
"Portraying the very edifices designed to serve human life--from post offices to subways, Murray presents us with a photo-realistic image of alienation."
- Maiza Hixson
DCCA Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art
Wilmington, Del. - 1 March 2012 - The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts announces the solo exhibition of the paintings of Philadelphia artist Erin Murray titled Municipalia in the Beckler Family Members Gallery from March 2 through June 3, 2012.
Murray will be present during a formal opening of the exhibition with gallery talks that will take place during the Friday, March 2, 2012 Art on the Town from 5 - 9 pm with gallery talks beginning at 6:30 pm. A conversation regarding Municipalia will take place during the Art Salad 2012 Spring season. Additionally, themes regarding Municipalia will be presented during DCCA's 2012 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium titled SUPERstructure: city/building/interior/object on March 23 - 24, 2012.
Detailed information of all related programs is listed below.
Please contact Sara Teixido, Director of Marketing and Communications, at steixido@thedcca.org for images and information regarding this exhibition or related programs.
View the Municipalia exhibition page and download the exhibition PDF here: http://www.thedcca.org/exhibit/municipalia
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About the exhibition_________________________
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Universal Structure, 2012
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Municipalia features recent drawings and paintings that depict austere public buildings and spare institutional settings throughout Philadelphia. Murray took hundreds of reference photos of what she describes as subterranean interiors and aging exteriors in preparation for this series. Representing familiar structures of the mundane, Murray's formal compositions echo the spartan appearance of 1950s Modern architecture. Portraying the very edifices designed to serve human life--from post offices to subways, Murray presents us with a photo-realistic image of alienation. As part of a season of exhibits focusing on design and construction, Murray's exhibition reveals a vision of the American city as a failed utopia. With titles such as Void, Us and Them, and The Future Looms, Murray's work calls the existing built environment into question while creating a dialogue about universal ideas of progress and absolutist philosophies surrounding the use of urban space. Regarding her paintings, Murray states, "With the subway interiors I could exploit the pure painterly joy of fluorescent light on dingy tile...with the drawings I could take the buildings out of context, and give the viewer more to chew on in terms of how to relate to the subject. The compositions are intended to 'monumentalize' the buildings and make them seem more important than they are...these buildings share their DNA with the utopian ideologies of Modernism but have to exist in the real world of economic reality and human messiness. So, in the drawings I try to provide a space for what buildings can communicate unintentionally..a sense of failure, sadness, absurdity..." -Maiza Hixson Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art
About the Artist____________________________________
Erin Murray (Philadelphia, PA)
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2013
(upcoming) Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Solo Series, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Strata, Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Erin Murray and Mark Masyga, Mount Airy Contemporary Artist's Space, Philadelphia, PA
Architecture Parlante, Slingluff Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007
(un)Built, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
LOOK! On Lancaster Ave, public art project, Philadelphia, PA
2010
VOX VI, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia PA
I Can't Get You Out of My Mind, Seraphin Gallery
Drawings, The Art Trust, West Chester, PA
2008
Underground, Center For Emerging Visual Artists
Fall Collection, F.U.E.L. Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Landscapes on the Edge, The Art Trust, West Chester, PA
2007
New American Paintings Show, Lancaster Arts and Culture Center, Lancaster, PA
Selected Awards
2002 Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellowship
Education
2001 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Related Programs_______________________________
Art Salad Talks: Thursdays Noon - 1 pm Art Salad is a free lunchtime series that features informal talks that delve into multi-point perspectives of contemporary art from artists, historians, educators, and curators. Bring your own lunch or have your lunch delivered by Cosi®.
View the full Art Salad Spring 2012 schedule here:
http://www.thedcca.org/content/art-salad
April 5 Philadelphia artist Erin Murray will discuss themes she explores in her exhibition Municipalia.
_______________________________________ 2012 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium
Friday, March 23, 2012: 7 - 9 pm
Saturday, March 24, 2012: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
 Municipalia is one of seven exhibitions during the Spring 2012 schedule that are thematically linked in a series titled SUPERstructure: city/building/interior/object. This exhibition theme will be the topic of DCCA's 2012 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium on March 23 - 24, 2012 with Keynote Speaker Marshall Brown Professor of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. The Symposium SUPERstructure will present interdisciplinary scholarship and examine artistic/architectural practice as a platform for discussion of the built environment, including the urban and domestic, the environmentally sustainable and unsustainable, the beautiful and repellant, and the permeable boundaries between design, craft, and fine art. This program is partially funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Guided Tours
To arrange Guided tours for DCCA exhibitions, contact the Education Department at 302-656-6466 x7101. Learn more about DCCA's tour programs:
http://www.thedcca.org/content/guided-tours
About the DCCA
The DCCA, a non-collecting art museum founded in 1979, presents between 25 and 30 exhibitions annually of regionally, nationally, and internationally recognized artists that explore topical issues in contemporary art and society, as well as symposia, lectures and tours. The DCCA rents individual studios to more than 25 artists, who also exhibit regularly within its galleries and throughout the region. The DCCA presents a variety of educational and outreach programs, including programs that integrate contemporary arts into the public school curriculum, and artists' residencies that feature collaboration with underserved community groups. The center is housed in a renovated industrial building at 200 South Madison St. in the heart of the rejuvenated Wilmington Riverfront.
DCCA gallery hours are:
10 am - 5 pm Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Noon - 5 pm Wednesday and Sunday
Admission is FREE
302-656-6466
www.thedcca.org
The DCCA is wheelchair-accessible.
Visitors with special needs are encouraged to call in advance.
DCCA exhibitions and programs are made possible, in part, by individual contributions; member support; and by major grants from Bank of America, Borgenicht Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, DuPont, ING DIRECT, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware in partnership with National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Christmas Shop Foundation; Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; The First State Gridiron Board; The Gilliam Foundation; I Could Do Great Things Foundation; Puffin Foundation; United Way of Delaware; Walmart; Wilmington Flower Market; and by Amtrak - Official Transportation Provider for the DCCA.
High resolution images available upon request.
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CONTACT
Sara Monserrat Teixido
Director of Marketing and Communications
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 South Madison Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
302-656-6466 x7110
steixido@thedcca.org
 
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