REPRESENTED: MARGARET MURPHY

Margaret Murphy is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Murphy earned her MFA from the University of Hartford’s Limited Photography Residency in 2021.

Using mediums that include photography, collage, and AI, Murphy’s work is both personal and universal, exploring topics of nostalgia, femininity, and identity as they relate to the Internet, social media, and technology. She draws from her personal experiences with self-portraiture, popular culture with art that references meme humour, and the effect changing technology has on collective and individual memory.

Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Murphy has released her work as NFTs through QuantumArt, EXPANDED.ART, SuperRare Spaces, and TranscendDAO.

Her work has been featured in Monopol, Der Greif, and EXPANDED.ART magazine.

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View on <a href="https://opensea.io/de-DE/collection/re-road-trip-by-margaret-murphy">OpenSea</a>. "Many folks may ask me why I do not train an AI on my own images. For me, it’s about the element of the unexpected that is akin to photographing on the road. The element of chance, thanks primarily to the nature of AI generation without explicit knowledge of the data sets Midjourney is trained on, felt like the unexpected photographic encounters of my road trips, often impossible to recreate. The thrill of an image revealing itself was familiar, and I embraced it." – Margaret Murphy
RE: ROAD TRIP by Margaret Murphy is a series of 150 AI-generated images reimagining the historically influential photographic genre of the road trip through the perspective of the contemporary female gaze. Murphy considers how this revered category has shaped and defined contemporary fine art photography using style influences, including artists such as Stephen Shore, Ed Ruscha, and Joel Sternfeld.
David Campany writes in his essay from THE OPEN ROAD: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE AMERICAN ROAD TRIP that photographing by car represented a personal and creative freedom, made possible by the availability of both the automobile and the camera through technical and industrial development in the mid-twentieth century. Murphy’s series posits if and how text-to-image AI will do the same now.
"RE: ROAD TRIP is informed by the history of art that I am so passionate about, my love of technology as self-expression, and the experiences I’ve had as a young artist living her life. I think that’s what every road trip project should strive for, camera or computer-made." <meta charset="utf-8">ABOUT THE NFT Contract address: <a href="https://etherscan.io/tx/0xcda45c80358d430c6946022cec69ed104b7ea5edc910f143aa6bbe1d8cd427f7" target="_blank">0xcda45c80358d430c6946022cec69ed104b7ea5edc910f143aa6bbe1d8cd427f7</a> Token Standard: ERC-721 Blockchain: Ethereum Metadata: Frozen and decentralized

RE: ROAD TRIP

MARGARET MURPHY | FUTURE PASTS, PAST FUTURES

View the NFT (Tezos) on <a href="https://objkt.one/t/76">objkt.one</a>. ABOUT EXPANDED.ART x objkt.one All NFTs (1 of 1s) will be available via auctions on objkt.one on August 31, 6 PM CET.
ABOUT THE WORK Using text-to-image AI software, Margaret Murphy imagines non-existent landscapes inspired by the photographic works of historically significant artists such as Ansel Adams, Stephen Shore, and Robert Adams. The works of these revered photographers capture specific moments in natural and cultural history. Murphy’s interpretation of Adams, Adams, and Shore through photo-realistic artificial image creation hypothesises the way we may view and understand our world in the metaverse as a fusion of both pasts and futures.

American Uncommon

BLOODY BLOOD ORANGES is a photograph from Margaret Murphy’s series “I Could Look at You All Day", made in 2020. The project consists of self-portraits and still lives made in Murphy’s home. The pictures visualize her interest in self-perception, consider the male gaze and play amongst social media’s influence on contemporary photography.
John Berger writes in WAYS OF SEEING, that a woman must simultaneously be both "the surveyor" and “the surveyed” because how she appears to those outside herself is critical to her success in life. Murphy’s photographs ask how this concept—and internalized misogyny—shapes the way we understand ourselves in the world. The companionship of still lives and portraiture in the project invites the viewer to survey moments of intimacy, reflection, disgust, celebration, and ambivalence within the world of Murphy's creation: a woman in flux between the standards set before her and the standards that she inherently feels exist within her. 
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The editions are numbered randomly, i.e. the edition number is not chronologically assigned to the time of order receipt. All LIMITED EDITIONS are authenticated with a Certificate of Authenticity Sticker signed and numbered by the artist.

Bloody Blood Oranges

Having grown up on the Internet and everything that comes with it, Margaret Murphy’s art speaks the language of online culture. Her brightly colored and aesthetically accentuated photographs and AI works encourage dialogues that are mostly led on social media: Murphy creates images questioning gender and the male gaze, beauty standards, and self-perception, while also exploring deeper recesses of memory and identity.

In conversation with Nora Partl, Online Editor, and Anika Meier, Murphy discusses self-portraiture and identity, image-making and AI, memory, and nostalgia.

IDENTITY AND AI

MARGARET MURPHY: PHOTOGRAPHY IN A POST-SOCIAL MEDIA ERA

ON POST-PHOTOGRAPHY

MARGARET MURPHY: RE-ROMANTICIZING THE ROAD TRIP

RE: ROAD TRIP is Margaret Murphy’s first solo show at the gallery in Berlin. On view will be Murphy’s new NFT collection, consisting of 200 images created by prompting. The American artist imagines a road trip, a classical genre in photography, through the eyes of a female photographer.

MARGARET MURPHY | SHOWROOM

TECHNO TERRAIN: NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE explores the dynamic relationship between nature and the digital realm. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through a mesmerizing fusion of AI-driven digital art, nostalgia-infused landscapes, and the limitless possibilities of the metaverse.



NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE 

TECHNO TERRAIN | BERLIN

19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory—personal or collective—through creative collaboration with AI. In collaboration with The NFT Gallery in London and New York. 
