About the Artist 
"Color, pattern and imagery all strongly influence the physical experience of an object.  Seeking avenues of meaning that embody both form and surface and keeping those issues in balance is the challenge.  I am curious about the emotional response decoration triggers: how glaze surfaces, being the last layer of information added, are capable of affecting form.  Glaze decoration becomes analogous to clothes or costume with bits of exposed clay flesh; I am motivated to decorate, to emblazon surface with color.  Ultimately though, it is the clay that reminds me of my initial attraction to the material; simply that it moves and adapts and becomes in one's hand." 

 
Robin Murphy is an artist living in Bayfield, a small town in Northwest Wisconsin.  She received her M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.  She has taught in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Minnesota, Duluth and at various art centers.  Robin's work is shown nationally through various invitational and juried exhibitions. She is currently working on a solo show which includes an installation of new work and photographs exploring the creative process within the artist's studio. You can reach her at:
robinmurphy@centurytel.net
715-779-0211
36715 County Hwy J, Bayfield, WI 54814

 
 
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