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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Elisabeth Murphy
Bio
Figurative artist in oils, watercolor, charcoal, pencil, alkyds, ink; have been bought, sold, exhibited, framed and buried.
Certified drafter, using both drawing board and CAD (Computer Aided Design).
Jewelry designer for P.J. Rone Company, including “24 Hour Camel” pin; “Let Go, Let God” butterfly coin.
Bell Laboratories President’s Silver Award, Technical Contribution.
Portrait of Emily Dickinson and Family selected for the Columbus, Ohio Main Library exhibit.
Solo Exhibit, Ohio University, twelve selected works of the Women’s Historical Portrait Series.
Artist Statement
Whether the art is portraiture, still life, vignette, marine or landscape, my intent is to draw the viewer quietly and contemplatively into the work. Two-dimensional art allows the viewer to control the speed and saturation of awareness, whether by immediate sight or memory. This immersive experience can provide the viewer a feeling of serenity, nostalgia, curiosity, or inspiration. Visual art presents the viewer with a conscious form of dreaming, and lucid dreaming introduces us to the marvelous mechanisms of the human psyche. Art is created for the masses, but its ultimate effect is intended for the unique interpretation of one individual.
Thus does she, when from individual states
She doth abstract the universal kinds;
Which then re-clothed in divers names and fates
Steal access through our senses to our minds.
–Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria