That Must Have Been the Sun

Solo Exhibition by Eileen Murphy

2024. 02. 03 - 24

1F, 80, Samcheong-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea






Artist Eileen Murphy


๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์• ํ”„ํ„ฐ๋ˆˆ์€ 2024๋…„ 2์›” 3์ผ ํ† ์š”์ผ Eileen Murphy (b.1981) ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „ ใ€ŠThat Must Have Been the Sunใ€‹์„ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Eileen Murphy๋Š” Mount Holyoke College์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ํ•™์‚ฌ์™€ Pratt Institute์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ์„์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ , ํšŒํ™”๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์—…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋ž‘๋“œ๋ฅด ๋ฅด๋„ค์ƒ์Šค ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝํ™”๊ฐ€์ธ Joachim Patinir, ๋„ค๋œ๋ž€๋“œ ํ’๊ฒฝํ™”๊ฐ€ Jacob von Ruisdael, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ์•„์˜ ์‹œ์ธ์ด์ž ์†Œ์„ค๊ฐ€ Rilke์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์‚ฌ์  ์ฃผ์ œ, ๋ฌธํ•™์  ์ฐธ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๋”ํ•ด์ง„ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ํ’๊ฒฝํšŒํ™” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ธŒ๋ฃจํด๋ฆฐ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋‰ด์š•์˜ ์ฝœ๋กฌ๋น„์•„์นด์šดํ‹ฐ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์† ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ๊ด€๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚ฏ์„ค์ง€๋งŒ ์นœ์ˆ™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ“์งˆ๋กœ ์œ ํ™” ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์„ ์–‡๊ฒŒ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์ •๊ตํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ๋”ํ•ด์ ธ ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šด ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฃŒ ํŠน์„ฑ์ƒ ํŒจ๋„ ์œ„์—์„œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์•ˆ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ํก์ˆ˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ํ‘œ๋ฉด ์œ„์— ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์–น์–ด์ ธ ์ƒ‰์ƒ์ด ํ•œ์ธต ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๊ฐ€๋ณ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์šฐ์•„ํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ์ดˆํ˜„์‹ค์ฃผ์˜์ ์ธ ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋Œ€๋‹ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ์—ฐํ•œ ๋ถ“ํ„ฐ์น˜๋กœ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง™์€ ์ƒ‰์ƒ์˜ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ํ„ฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹์˜ ํ„ฐ์น˜๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์€ ๊ฐ•์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”์œ„์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ถ”์ƒ์ ์ธ ํ‘œํ˜„์—์„œ ์ ์ฐจ ์„ฌ์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ์จ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ์™„์„ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ ์ œ๋ชฉ์ธ ใ€ŠThat Must Have Been the Sunใ€‹์€ "๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ•ด์˜€๊ฒ ์ง€"๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋–ค ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๋ฐ๊ณ  ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•  ๋•Œ ์“ฐ์ด๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์• ํ”„ํ„ฐ๋ˆˆ์€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋งŒ์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™˜์ƒ์ ์ธ ํ’๊ฒฝ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€๊ฐ์„ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ €๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ, ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์ž์—ฐ๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋А๊ปด๋ณด๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 


Artist’s Statement


My paintings come from a mixture of my own experiences, borrowed art historical footnotes, and imagery drawn from literary references. I want to allude to Patinir, Jacob von Ruisdael, Frederick Church, and Rilke with each meticulous brushstroke, but I want to diffuse these references through my own narrative, as well as my own hand and brush. The resulting images are  (I hope) at once foreign and familiar, intimate yet overarching. I build my compositions from layers of thinly applied oil paint, starting with bold, random strokes of a dark color, like burnt umber; from these haphazard marks, I start to unearth an image. One ragged stroke becomes the beginning of a tree; another drag of the brush might eventually be the beginning of a river or rock. I begin with abstract gestures and textures and find my way to a composition. As a result, these works have a searching quality—the desire to peer, forage, and unearth is implicit in the process of making the painting itself. This method of locating structure creates a subterfuge in the center of my paintings; with a clump of leafy tendrils here, or an expanse of negative space there, I try to create a sense that these paintings have found their own way to the center of the picture plane.   


ART WORKS

Eileen Murphy

Tangle

Oil on panel

20.3 x 20.3 cm

2023


Eileen Murphy

Streamer

Oil on panel

20.3 x 20.3 cm

2023


Eileen Murphy

Violet Hour

Oil on panel

30.4 x 30.4 cm

2023

Eileen Murphy

Satellite

Oil on panel

30.4 x 30.4 cm

2023


Eileen Murphy

All the shock

Oil on panel

40.6 x 40.6 cm

2021


Eileen Murphy

Your Bent Bough

Oil on panel

101.6 x 76.1  cm

2023