Santa-Rita Contemporary Art

Born in rural Mississippi, David Murphree was raised with an abiding concern for the natural riches of the Deep South. At the same time, hours spent in the laboratory with his father, a pioneer in the field of plasma physics, stimulated the artist’s fascination with actualizing the forces of nature through the lens of physical science. Murphree is quick to point out, “These influences combined form the central theme of my painting: the land and the battles it wages with the technologies of our age.”

Aiming to “push psychic and metaphysical impressions into a willful embodiment of existing with the world,” Murphree’s paintings represent visual memories accrued over two decades as an architectural and industrial designer in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Trained in the Fine Arts and Architecture at Mississippi State University and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, Murphree has been affiliated with architects Peter Eisenman, Scoggins Elam Bray, and Mockbee Coker Howorth, and has taught design at the California State Polytechnic University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Tulane University, and University of Arkansas.

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