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Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004
Studio — Charlottesville, Virginia 1996-2004 Studio

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“When I say there is nothing new I mean we have been struggling with the nature of God for as long as we've been able to conceive that idea. We've been trying to come to terms with the division of the soul and this apparatus, the body.”

—Todd Murphy, C’ville Weekly, 1997
I am not afraid to reference antiquity or old masters.

— Todd Murphy, 1997
I read a great quote by Goethe. I’m going to misquote him, but it goes something like, “Anyone who cant synthesize three thousand years of civilization is living hand to mouth.”

TODD MURPHY 1997
Actually Darwin looked at it quite fearfully. his ideas were well formed before he wrote about it. For 22 years, he had his ideas. He knew the implications. It basically nullified, it was the antithesis of Christian thought.

—Todd Murphy, C’ville Weekly, 1997

Cullum, Jerry. Todd Murphy, Sculpture, Volume 17, Number 6, July/August: 1998, p. 70-71.

Cullum, Jerry. Todd Murphy, Sculpture, Volume 17, Number 6, July/August: 1998, p. 70-71.

"Spoiled by success? Talented Todd Murphy succumbs to repetition." by Jason Forrest TheAtlantaConstitution December, 1998

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TODD MURPHY ART IN AMERICA , 2000
By Cochran — TODD MURPHY ART IN AMERICA , 2000 By Cochran

The Charlottesville Observer, 2000

McTighe, Monica. Natural Controversy, C-Ville (VA) Weekly, Volume 12, Number 24, C-List, June 13-19, 2000, p. 30.

Exhibition Natural Histories, Charlottesville Va 2000

Gilbert, Chris. Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1, Number 10, November 2000, p. 30-34

Gilbert, Chris. Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1, Number 10, November 2000, p. 30-34

Star Struck by Todd Murphy By Sherbert Atlanta Magazine 2001

Star Struck by Todd Murphy By Sherbert Atlanta Magazine 2001

Feaster, Felicia. Taxonomy Day: Todd Murphy melds art and science at Lowe Gallery, Creative Loafing, April 2003.

Feaster, Felicia. Taxonomy Day: Todd Murphy melds art and science at Lowe Gallery, Creative Loafing, April 2003.

Lovett, Ann local artist Todd Murphy; Southern Modernist PiedmontReview

TODD MURPHY Systems & Cycles in Natural History 2003

Fox, Catherine. Todd Murphy in a Natural Light, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 30, 2001 pp.1I,4-5I

Cullum, Jerry. Todd Murphy, Sculpture, Volume 17, Number 6, July/August: 1998, p. 70-71.

"Spoiled by success? Talented Todd Murphy succumbs to repetition." by Jason Forrest TheAtlantaConstitution December, 1998

TODD MURPHY_Art_FilM_THE VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL AND LIGHT HOUSE FILM PROJECT EXHIBITION PROJECT•OR 1999_Listing_TheObserver_VA

TODD MURPHY ART IN AMERICA , 2000
By Cochran

The Charlottesville Observer, 2000

McTighe, Monica. Natural Controversy, C-Ville (VA) Weekly, Volume 12, Number 24, C-List, June 13-19, 2000, p. 30.

Gilbert, Chris. Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1, Number 10, November 2000, p. 30-34

Star Struck by Todd Murphy By Sherbert Atlanta Magazine 2001

Feaster, Felicia. Taxonomy Day: Todd Murphy melds art and science at Lowe Gallery, Creative Loafing, April 2003.

Lovett, Ann local artist Todd Murphy; Southern Modernist PiedmontReview

Fox, Catherine. Todd Murphy in a Natural Light, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 30, 2001 pp.1I,4-5I

For more information on the Courage of Margaret Mead and related works check out the Bird room page in link below

BIRD ROOM PAGE
For more information on the Courage of Margaret Mead and related works check out the Bird room page in link below

BIRD ROOM PAGE

The Courage of Margaret Mead, 1998

Studio view Charlottesville Virginia 1998

The Center with extension visible

Todd applying a. new coat of liquin 2016

Todd applying a new coat of liquin 2016

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like German sculptor Joseph Beuys, Murphy sees everything and every person around him as potentially involved in an art making activity.

Chris Gilbert: Todd Murphy Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1
Now he likes to walk around the structure pointing out the possibilities for art projects in the remains of a bowling alley on the first floor and the strange sculptural shapes of a slot car racing track that once existed on the second floor. he talks about the many potentials of the building—--- as an adult playground site for installations. and studio space for local artists—--

Chris Gilbert: Todd Murphy Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1
The illusion of order created by the sciences—---remember the word science, like the word scissors comes from a root meaning to cut to divide—---conceals a deeper irrationality and disorderly unity.

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Murphy has been planning other very ambitious ventures that he hopes will affect his entire community. When speaking about these community oriented projects, Murphy can sound vague and elusive until you realize that he is just purposely keeping his ideas open ended like German sculptor Joseph Beuys, Murphy sees everything and every person around him as potentially involved in an art making activity.

Chris Gilbert: Todd Murphy Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1
The story of Jefferson's love affair with the enslaved Hemings continues to elicit passionate responses . The same could be said of Murphy's public sculpture, which has been attacked both physically and intellectually by the public.

Chris Gilbert: Todd Murphy Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1
that it seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates. There lay the fixed threads of the warp subject to but one single, ever re-turning, unchanging vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit of the crosswise interblending of other threads with its own.

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Ishmael

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As on traverses his cavernous and dimly lit studio, larger-than-life tableaus share space with miniature vignettes that occupy almost every available inch of one room.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
The artist has created tiny stage sets that are filled with a strange assortment of sculptural works made of bones and other discards, some of which are not much larger than five inches. These constructed rooms are used in Murphy's video works.

MOCA Jacksonville Museum Catalog 2007
Murphy's fascinating exploration with scale is beautifully illustrated in this exhibition in “untitled” (studio). The work is a bewildering, miniature artist, studio, meticulously, crafted by murphy, the rustic confines of the scale down studio, arranged with an assortment of found objects, such as sepia photographs, skeletal specimens, tiny drawings and diagrams affixed to the wall and a shrunken work table throne with sketchbooks the artist serves as the inhabitant of this uncanny environment creating small scale works and rearranging its delicate contents, as if it were a functioning studio.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007

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They capture the artist, ongoing exploration with found objects, imagemaking, and the psychologically charged playground of the artist studio

MOCA Jacksonville exhibition catalogue 2007
Many of Murphy's works have a nostalgic presence and attest to the notion of the artist as a collector and preserver of oddities from other eras

MOCA Jacksonville, museum catalog, 2007
Murphy's sculpture of dusty wooden hat forms arranged within a rusty rolling metal shelf are foreign at first glimpse–The cracked and weathered surfaces of the varied forms conjure up eerie associations, as if the artist has uncovered an abandoned work room from a distant past. The white walls of the museum environment further offer a strike in contrast to the rustic quality of Murphy's presentation of these antique forms.

MOCA Jacksonville, museum catalog, 2007
An important element and understanding of the Murphys creative process is his preoccupation with dramatic shift in scale.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
As on traverses his cavernous and dimly lit studio, larger-than-life tableaus share space with miniature vignettes that occupy almost every available inch of one room.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
The artist has created tiny stage sets that are filled with a strange assortment of sculptural works made of bones and other discards, some of which are not much larger than five inches. These constructed rooms are used in Murphy's video works.

MOCA Jacksonville Museum Catalog 2007
Murphy continually question the definition of what constitutes 'fine art', blurring the lines between different art forms and challenging viewers to consider new perspectives.
Murphy's fascinating exploration with scale is beautifully illustrated in this exhibition in “untitled” (studio). The work is a bewildering, miniature artist, studio, meticulously, crafted by murphy, the rustic confines of the scale down studio, arranged with an assortment of found objects, such as sepia photographs, skeletal specimens, tiny drawings and diagrams affixed to the wall and a shrunken work table throne with sketchbooks the artist serves as the inhabitant of this uncanny environment creating small scale works and rearranging its delicate contents, as if it were a functioning studio.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007

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Many of Murphy's works have a nostalgic presence and attest to the notion of the artist as a collector and preserver of oddities from other eras

MOCA Jacksonville, museum catalog, 2007
Murphy's sculpture of dusty wooden hat forms arranged within a rusty rolling metal shelf are foreign at first glimpse–The cracked and weathered surfaces of the varied forms conjure up eerie associations, as if the artist has uncovered an abandoned work room from a distant past. The white walls of the museum environment further offer a strike in contrast to the rustic quality of Murphy's presentation of these antique forms.

MOCA Jacksonville, museum catalog, 2007
An important element and understanding of the Murphys creative process is his preoccupation with dramatic shift in scale.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
As on traverses his cavernous and dimly lit studio, larger-than-life tableaus share space with miniature vignettes that occupy almost every available inch of one room.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
The artist has created tiny stage sets that are filled with a strange assortment of sculptural works made of bones and other discards, some of which are not much larger than five inches. These constructed rooms are used in Murphy's video works.

MOCA Jacksonville Museum Catalog 2007
Murphy continually question the definition of what constitutes 'fine art', blurring the lines between different art forms and challenging viewers to consider new perspectives.
Murphy's fascinating exploration with scale is beautifully illustrated in this exhibition in “untitled” (studio). The work is a bewildering, miniature artist, studio, meticulously, crafted by murphy, the rustic confines of the scale down studio, arranged with an assortment of found objects, such as sepia photographs, skeletal specimens, tiny drawings and diagrams affixed to the wall and a shrunken work table throne with sketchbooks the artist serves as the inhabitant of this uncanny environment creating small scale works and rearranging its delicate contents, as if it were a functioning studio.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
They capture the artist, ongoing exploration with found objects, imagemaking, and the psychologically charged playground of the artist studio

MOCA Jacksonville exhibition catalogue 2007

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Murphy continually question the definition of what constitutes 'fine art', blurring the lines between different art forms and challenging viewers to consider new perspectives.
An important element and understanding of the Murphys creative process is his preoccupation with dramatic shift in scale.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
As on traverses his cavernous and dimly lit studio, larger-than-life tableaus share space with miniature vignettes that occupy almost every available inch of one room.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
The artist has created tiny stage sets that are filled with a strange assortment of sculptural works made of bones and other discards, some of which are not much larger than five inches. These constructed rooms are used in Murphy's video works.

MOCA Jacksonville Museum Catalog 2007
They capture the artist, ongoing exploration with found objects, imagemaking, and the psychologically charged playground of the artist studio

MOCA Jacksonville exhibition catalogue 2007

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The artist has created tiny stage sets that are filled with a strange assortment of sculptural works made of bones and other discards, some of which are not much larger than five inches. These constructed rooms are used in Murphy's video works.

MOCA Jacksonville Museum Catalog 2007
Many of Murphy's works have a nostalgic presence and attest to the notion of the artist as a collector and preserver of oddities from other eras

MOCA Jacksonville, museum catalog, 2007
Murphy's sculpture of dusty wooden hat forms arranged within a rusty rolling metal shelf are foreign at first glimpse–The cracked and weathered surfaces of the varied forms conjure up eerie associations, as if the artist has uncovered an abandoned work room from a distant past. The white walls of the museum environment further offer a strike in contrast to the rustic quality of Murphy's presentation of these antique forms.

MOCA Jacksonville, museum catalog, 2007
An important element and understanding of the Murphys creative process is his preoccupation with dramatic shift in scale.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
As on traverses his cavernous and dimly lit studio, larger-than-life tableaus share space with miniature vignettes that occupy almost every available inch of one room.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
Murphy continually question the definition of what constitutes 'fine art', blurring the lines between different art forms and challenging viewers to consider new perspectives.
Murphy's fascinating exploration with scale is beautifully illustrated in this exhibition in “untitled” (studio). The work is a bewildering, miniature artist, studio, meticulously, crafted by murphy, the rustic confines of the scale down studio, arranged with an assortment of found objects, such as sepia photographs, skeletal specimens, tiny drawings and diagrams affixed to the wall and a shrunken work table throne with sketchbooks the artist serves as the inhabitant of this uncanny environment creating small scale works and rearranging its delicate contents, as if it were a functioning studio.

MOCA Jacksonville museum catalog 2007
They capture the artist, ongoing exploration with found objects, imagemaking, and the psychologically charged playground of the artist studio

MOCA Jacksonville exhibition catalogue 2007

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Mastodon, 2000/03

Untitled (Lion) 2003

Untitled, 2002

Untitled, 2002

1996-2006

Untitled, 1999

Untitled, 1999

Untitled (Hall of Primates) revisited 2002

Sally Hemings, Mixed Media, 1999
Untitled (polygraph), Found Object Sculpture, 2000 — Sally Hemings, Mixed Media, 1999 Untitled (polygraph), Found Object Sculpture, 2000

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“more and more, the people that I'm interested in are around the development, planning, design, architecture world,”

Todd Murphy, AJC Artist Blends styles and Sovereign 2009
Murphy can sound vague and elusive until you realize that he is just purposely keeping his ideas open ended like German sculptor Joseph Beuys, Murphy sees everything and every person around him as potentially involved in an art making activity.

Chris Gilbert: Todd Murphy Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1 2000
Beuys used the term “social sculpture” to refer to his utopian dreams that the fabric of society could become a kind of artwork in which everyone participates, and Murphy relishes this term, especially for the positive air it gives to transient interpersonal creations. This in turn hooks up with his own interest in narrative and temporality.

Chris Gilbert: Todd Murphy Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1, 2000
Now he likes to walk around the structure pointing out the possibilities for art projects in the remains of a bowling alley on the first floor and the strange sculptural shapes of a slot car racing track that once existed on the second floor. he talks about the many potentials of the building—--- as an adult playground site for installations. and studio space for local artists—--

Chris Gilbert: Todd Murphy Post-Modernist Style, Southern Gothic Aura, 64 Magazine, Volume 1 2000

Arts
Daring Artist bridges genres
Artist Blends styles By Catherine Fox, photographs by Jason Getz 2009 AJC

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Artist Blends styles By Catherine Fox, photographs by Jason Getz 2009 AJC

Artist Blends styles By Catherine Fox, photographs by Jason Getz 2009 AJC

Artist Blends styles By Catherine Fox, photographs by Jason Getz 2009 AJC

Artist Blends styles By Catherine Fox, photographs by Jason Getz 2009 AJC

2009 Todd Murphy Artist and Curator SOVEREIGN Luxury real estate Sotheby's International DAvid Boehmig

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The photos were shot at different depths of field, which registers a feeling that something is not quite right. The tension between the illusionistic and the artificial....

Catherine Fox, Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2009
Each image is a section of a different tree, each occupied by different birds and set against a different background.

By Catherine Fox Staff writer Atlanta Journal constitution, 2009
Murphy has seamlessly integrated as many as 10 images to create a single piece,

Catherine Fox, AJC, 2009
Catherine Fox, co-founder of ArtsATL. 2013 recipient of the Community Impact Administrator Arts Award from the Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts (CCA). In 2019 The Catherine Fox Emerging Artist Award was created in to acknowledge Fox’s profound and ongoing contributions to Atlanta arts.

Previously, Fox served as a leading arts critic at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. You can read more about Fox here
"Todd is not afraid to embrace new technology. His use of photography in the '90's was very innovative. But there's always continuity. The idea of Layering is basic to his work."

Anna Walker Skillman, owner Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Ga. AJC, 2009

Untitled (Fresco) 2008

Untitled Sovereign Series (Berries Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Flowering Branch) digital C Print, 2009 (light box) 2008

Untitled Sovereign Series (Big Green Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Blue Birds Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Bluejays) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Willow Branches) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Cardinals Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Branch with Clouds) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Falcon) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Flicker Branches) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Humming Bird Branches) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Kestrel Branches) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Kingfisher) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (green (leafy branch)) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Orioles Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Owls Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Poplar Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (nuthatch trunk) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Trunk) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Warblers Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

Untitled Sovereign Series (Berries Branch) digital C print 2009 (light box 2008)

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