Catherine Murphy

Looking Into It

Real to the point of abstraction: <i>Comforter</i>, 2007.
Knoedler & Company
Real to the point of abstraction: Comforter, 2007.

Catherine Murphy’s drawings are amazing. As feats of versimilitude, they are without peer in contemporary art—it’s difficult to bring to mind another artist capable of putting pencil to paper with as much concentration and dexterity. Ms. Murphy is unsparing in her dedication to observed fact.

Spill (2007), on display at Knoedler and Company along with a handful of other drawings and seven oil paintings, is a tour de force likely to have viewers gaping in disbelief.  read more »

A Realist's New Paintings Winnowed to to Bare Essentials

"A difficult artist"-that's how I've heard people describe Catherine Murphy.  read more »