Debbie Murphy

Born

New York City, '60

Education

Washington University School of Art BFA '89 St. Louis Community College at Meramec AA '87

Solo Exhibits

Parallax: A Wandering Chariot, Componere Gallery, Dec. '08

Threshold: Neither Here Nor There, Componere Gallery, Oct. '04

Absence & Presence, Chesterfield Arts, Chesterfield MO '01

The Space Around Me, Componere Gallery, July '01

City Prints, St. Louis, Development Corporation, '01 Collagraph Prints, Hendren Gallery, Lindenwood, '00

Urban Environment, Library Ltd., '99

A Sense of Place, University City Library Gallery, '98

Printmaking, Aesop's Coffeehouse, '97

Flights of Fancy, Velvet, '96

Group Exhibitions

Nue Vue, Art Coop, Art St. Louis, MO, ‘03

Nine, One, One Plus One, Art St. Louis, MO, '02

Curated Works, Fleishman-Hillard, St. Louis, MO, '02

Three Person Show,World Trade Center, Clayton, MO, '02

Art for a New Space, The Gallery at Chesterfield Arts - Chesterfield Arts, '01

Show & Tell, St. Louis Community College at Meramec, '99

The Invitational Exhibition, St. Charles County Community College, '99

Contemporary Women Artists, XI, St. Louis Community College at Meramec, '99

Regional Commerce & Growth Commission Gallery, '98

Creative Spirits, Hendren Gallery, Lindenwood Collage, '97

VAST THINGS: small spaces, '97 traveled to: Gallery Nine, Lincoln, NE, Componere Gallery, St. Louis, Mo. and Studio G, Shenandoah, IA , '97

Untitled... The Generic No-Name Show, Art St. Louis, '97

HERstory: The Smaller Room, The Midtown Arts Center, '97

Contemporary Women Artists, X, The Midtown Arts Center, '96

Continued to: Southeast Missouri State University Museum, 97

Prints, Hot Locust, '96

Community Cross Project, Forum for Contemporary Art, '95

Urban Landscape, Art St. Louis, '94 Images, Bethesda Hospital, '92

Printmaking Further, COCA, '91

Panels, Diptychs, and Triptychs, Art St. Louis, '91

What's New in Art?, Galesberg Civic Art Center, '89

Awards

Jean Tsai Award, Contemporary Women Artists XI, '99

Jean Tsai Award, Contemporary Women Artists XI, '96

Milliken Printmaking Award, Washington University School of Art, '88

Collections

Bruce S. Feldacker, 230 S. Beniston Clayton MO 63105

JetBrokers, Inc., Spirit of St. Louis Airport, Chesterfield, Mo.

Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc., Ballwin, Missouri

Artist’s Statement

Parallax and The Wandering Chariot
Solo Exhibit, Componere Gallery, Dec. '08

Collagraph Prints Featured views of from the Trojan War on its panels, this ancient Etruscan chariot inspired a series of prints. This intricate chariot is viewed from differing positions and features a variety of landscapes (evoking current events) in the background. The word and concept of parallax feature prominently in James Joyce's novel,

Ulysses. Parallax - in a philosophic/geometric sense: An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight. The apparent displacement or difference of position of an object as seen from two different stations or points of view.

In contemporary writing parallax can also be the same story, or a similar story from approximately the same time line, from one book told from a different perspective in another book.