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Catherine Fox, co-founder of ArtsATL. 2013 recipient of the Community Impact Administrator Arts Award from the Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts (CCA). In 2019 The Catherine Fox Emerging Artist Award was created in to acknowledge Fox’s profound and ongoing contributions to Atlanta arts.

Previously, Fox served as a leading arts critic at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. You can read more about Fox here
EXHIBIT PREVIEW DATE: June 29, 1990 Works by Todd Murphy Studio reception tonight at 7:30 (one night only). 500 Bishop St., Suite D-1. 352-9143 An artist confronts his heroes

By Catherine Fox Staff writer

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Art/ World The Work of Todd Murphy, by Joseph Perrin, Southern Homes. 1989.

Joseph Samuel Perrin, 1923 - 2014 Professor Emeritus, and the founder and former Chairman of the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University,
A structural element that is virtually always included in Murphy's paintings is "writing," which he uses to symbolize his thoughts about the human condition and art.

Joseph Samuel Perrin, 1923 - 2014 Professor Emeritus, and the founder and former Chairman of the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University,
The words may simply be notes to himself or they may be from any source that is available if the message seems cogent. They may even be written in Russian.

Joseph Samuel Perrin, 1923 - 2014 Professor Emeritus, and the founder and former Chairman of the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University,
Among the words that may appear on some of his canvases is "ARNT”. This play on the contraction "aren't," he explains, "is for me a negation of what art has become."

Joseph Samuel Perrin, 1923 - 2014 Professor Emeritus, and the founder and former Chairman of the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University,
Once the writing has been introduced onto the painting's surface, it is invariably obscured or woven into the fabric of the large pictorial idea.

Joseph Samuel Perrin, 1923 - 2014 Professor Emeritus, and the founder and former Chairman of the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University,
Yet the informal calligraphy seems to further support and identify with the single figure in a context that feels as primordial as the drawings on the walls of the ancient caves and, at the same time, as sophisticated and timely as a billboard.

Joseph Samuel Perrin, 1923 - 2014 Professor Emeritus, and the founder and former Chairman of the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University,
Catherine Fox, co-founder of ArtsATL. 2013 recipient of the Community Impact Administrator Arts Award from the Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts (CCA). In 2019 The Catherine Fox Emerging Artist Award was created in to acknowledge Fox’s profound and ongoing contributions to Atlanta arts.

Previously, Fox served as a leading arts critic at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. You can read more about Fox here

EXHIBIT PREVIEW DATE: June 29, 1990 Works by Todd Murphy Studio reception tonight at 7:30 (one night only). 500 Bishop St., Suite D-1. 352-9143 An artist confronts his heroes

Art/ World The Work of Todd Murphy, by Joseph Perrin, Southern Homes. 1989.

A structural element that is virtually always included in Murphy's paintings is "writing," which he uses to symbolize his thoughts about the human condition and art.

The words may simply be notes to himself or they may be from any source that is available if the message seems cogent. They may even be written in Russian.

Among the words that may appear on some of his canvases is "ARNT”. This play on the contraction "aren't," he explains, "is for me a negation of what art has become."

Once the writing has been introduced onto the painting's surface, it is invariably obscured or woven into the fabric of the large pictorial idea.

Yet the informal calligraphy seems to further support and identify with the single figure in a context that feels as primordial as the drawings on the walls of the ancient caves and, at the same time, as sophisticated and timely as a billboard.

TODD MURPHY (1962-2020)