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Missoula Art Museum
335 North Pattee
Missoula, MT 59802
T: 406.728.0447
F: 406.543.8691
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Molly Murphy
Bio:
Molly Murphy grew up in western Montana. She works in traditional native arts, sculpture and printmaking and enjoys pairing tribal art and design with contemporary themes using bold color and geometric shapes. Murphy's artwork reminds viewers of the great debt abstract art owes to tribal and aboriginal arts. She is fortunate to be able to draw inspiration from both of her cultures, white and Native American, to represent the effects of cultural and racial intermixing. With humor, she conveys a sense of history, cause and effect.
Murphy's print, Market Imperialism, appears on first glance, to be a traditional Native American parfleche design. Looking closer we see that the design illustrates old patterns replaced by commercial logos: Nike, Pepsi Cola, Tommy Hilfiger. Murphy writes that, "Advertising and lifestyle branding are the keys to contemporary market expansion in contrast to the historic need for physical control over a geographic area. Now instead of the Calvary fighting for land we have cola companies fighting for brand loyalty."
Education:
The University of Montana, Missoula, MT
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