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American artist

Althea Murphy-Price is an American artist who specializes in printmaking, and Professor of Art at University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Her work "contemplates the power of hair as a signifier of cultural self-identity."

Early life

Murphy-Price was born in California.

Education

Murphy-Price earned her B.A. in Studio Fine Arts from Spelman College in 2001. In 2003, she earned an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Purdue University. Murphy-Price earned an MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2005.

Career

Murphy-Price has served as assistant professor in printmaking at the Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University and at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Technique

Murphy-Price's signature technique is the creating prints by using synthetic hair extensions as the lines in her work. Her technique is profiled in Beth Grabowski and Bill Fick's Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process.

Murphy-Price uses both hair and hair accessories to create sculpture and installations, as well. Hair Rug No. 2 involved the artist dusting synthetic hair on the floor over lace overlay to create a striking rug-like pattern.

Exhibitions and collections

Murphy-Price has participated in solo and small-group exhibitions including:

She has been an artist-in-residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, and The Vermont Studio Center.

Murphy-Price's works can be found in the collections of University of Akron, Gallery Collections in Akron, Ohio; Kohler Library, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin; Tyler School of Art Archives in Philadelphia, PA; Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center in Atlanta, GA, among others.

References

  1. "Althea Murphy-Price". Tennessee Arts Commission. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  2. Stewart-Sanabria, Denise (2017-06-05). "UT printmaking exhibit hints at the department's creative prowess". The Knoxville Mercury. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  3. "Althea Murphy-Price - Artist | LOCATE Arts". locatearts.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  4. ^ "HAIR ON FIRE". Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  5. ^ "Superficial Details: Althea Murphy Price". Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. 2015-06-16. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  6. Fick, Bill; Grabowski, Beth; Laurence King Publishing (2017). Printmaking: a complete guide to materials & processes. London: Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78067-194-9.
  7. Arts, Cincinnati. "Supplemental Ornament | Cincinnati Arts". www.cincinnatiarts.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  8. "Althea Murphy-Price | Woman Made Gallery". womanmade.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  9. "Supplemental Ornament | Cincinnati Arts". www.cincinnatiarts.org. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  10. "Art notes: 'Salon Time' celebrates culture of black women's hair". Omaha.com. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  11. "Salon Time". The Union for Contemporary Art. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  12. "Althea Murphy-Price - Associate Professor | School of Art". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  13. "On Exhibit: Althea Murphy-Price March 16–May 11, 2018". Tennessee Arts Commission. 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2020-07-18.

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