The Courage of Margaret Mead, 1998

The Courage of Margaret Mead, 1998

  • The Courage of Margaret Mead and Bird Room

    TODD MURPHY 1998

  • It's about signal sending, animal markings, technological devices. Anything that's about signs that send messages. .....a lot of animals, a lot of patterns......it all becomes part of a bigger pattern. We have our time, we send our signals and we move on. And that becomes part of a bigger pattern.

    Todd Murphy , Hour, Detroit, 1998

  • Collage of traditional painted landscape scenes and hunting paintings, sourcing high and low paintings, from old world to kitsch. layering to create truly original vague landscape with photographic and sculptural birds unifying the scene.

    Duck painting, 2018

    photo collage of paintings (from old world to kitsch), photography, sculptural cutouts and antique duck decoys.

  • the collage paintings creating a unified scene. I think it can be amazing.

    Duck painting

Reflection, 2015

  • “I try to make my art approachable. The average person not interested in art can appreciate my work for its beauty. Someone deeper into art can see the different layers.”

    —TODD MURPHY, 2016 Forbes interview

  • “It's this idea of the infinite within the finite - the comfort in recognizing that physics/science/art all are about asking questions.”

    —Todd Murphy, 1995

  • …..a lot of animals, a lot of patterns…it all becomes part of the bigger pattern. We have our time, we send our signals and we move on, And that becomes part of a bigger pattern.”

    Todd Murphy (𝖧𝗈𝗎𝗋, 𝖣𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗈𝗂𝗍, 1998)

Bird Room, Black and White, 2014
Studio 2014
Studio, 2014
Studio 2014
Studio, 2014
Studio, 2014
Studio, 2014
Studio, 2014
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  • “Do you know how risky it is to make something beautiful at this point? Even to make something aesthetic, that’s not performative or conceptual? It’s very challenging.”

    — Todd Murphy, 2016

  • Its vastness shows the giant works at their best; staring at his pieces can be a bit humbling, like gazing into the night sky.

    John Lerner, Peach Magazine, 2007

  • The Courage of Margaret Mead celebrates the legacy of Margaret Mead (1901-1978). Mead was a pioneer in the use of film and photography in her ethnographic research; and was one of the first anthropologist to focus on visual communication, non verbal communiation, kinesics, and proxemics.

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  • The illusion of order created by the sciences— remember the word science, like the world scissors comes from a root meaning to cut or divide—conceals a deeper irrationality and disorderly Unity.

    TODD MURPHY 2000

Bird Room, 2014/2016

Bird Room, 2014/2016

Bird Room , 2015

Bird Room , 2015

Reflection, 2015

Reflection, 2015

The Courage Of Margaret Meade, 1998/ 2015

The Courage Of Margaret Meade, 1998/ 2015

Bird Room, Vertical, 2015

Bird Room, Vertical, 2015

Bird Room, Vertical, 2014

Bird Room, Vertical, 2014