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Ciarán Murphy
still, weight, thing, GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US), December 15, 2023 - February 17, 2024

Ciarán Murphy: still, weight, thing

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Works
  • Ciarán Murphy windworld, 2023 Oil on linen 138 x 180 cm | 54 3/8 x 70 7/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    windworld, 2023
    Oil on linen
    138 x 180 cm | 54 3/8 x 70 7/8 in
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  • Ciarán Murphy flutter, 2023 Oil on canvas 120 x 86 cm | 47 1/4 x 33 7/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    flutter, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    120 x 86 cm | 47 1/4 x 33 7/8 in
  • Ciarán Murphy herd, 2023 Oil on linen 138 x 180 cm | 54 3/8 x 70 7/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    herd, 2023
    Oil on linen
    138 x 180 cm | 54 3/8 x 70 7/8 in
  • Ciarán Murphy both feet, 2023 Oil on linen, framed 31.9 x 41.9 cm | 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    both feet, 2023
    Oil on linen, framed
    31.9 x 41.9 cm | 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
  • Ciarán Murphy (hold on) a second, 2023 Oil on linen 112 x 90 cm | 44 1/8 x 35 3/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    (hold on) a second, 2023
    Oil on linen
    112 x 90 cm | 44 1/8 x 35 3/8 in
  • Ciarán Murphy bye then, 2023 Oil on linen, framed 31.9 x 41.9 cm | 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    bye then, 2023
    Oil on linen, framed
    31.9 x 41.9 cm | 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
  • Ciarán Murphy eyed 2, 2023 Oil on linen 120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    eyed 2, 2023
    Oil on linen
    120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
  • Ciarán Murphy eyed 3, 2023 Oil on linen 120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    eyed 3, 2023
    Oil on linen
    120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
  • Ciarán Murphy eyed 1, 2023 Oil on linen 120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    eyed 1, 2023
    Oil on linen
    120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
  • Ciarán Murphy sonomus, 2023 Oil on linen 120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    sonomus, 2023
    Oil on linen
    120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in
  • Ciarán Murphy privit, 2023 Oil on linen, framed 51.9 x 71.9 cm | 20 1/2 x 28 1/4 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    privit, 2023
    Oil on linen, framed
    51.9 x 71.9 cm | 20 1/2 x 28 1/4 in
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  • Ciarán Murphy wafte, 2023 Oil on linen 110 x 110 cm | 43 1/4 x 43 1/4 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    wafte, 2023
    Oil on linen
    110 x 110 cm | 43 1/4 x 43 1/4 in
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  • Ciarán Murphy drive there, 2023 Oil on linen, framed 51.9 x 71.9 cm | 20 1/2 x 28 1/4 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    drive there, 2023
    Oil on linen, framed
    51.9 x 71.9 cm | 20 1/2 x 28 1/4 in
  • Ciarán Murphy melt, 2023 Oil on linen, framed 36.9 x 46.9 cm | 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    melt, 2023
    Oil on linen, framed
    36.9 x 46.9 cm | 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 in
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  • Ciarán Murphy moon day, 2023 Oil on linen, framed 51.9 x 61.9 cm | 20 1/2 x 24 3/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    moon day, 2023
    Oil on linen, framed
    51.9 x 61.9 cm | 20 1/2 x 24 3/8 in
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  • Ciarán Murphy negative, 2023 Oil on linen, framed 61.9 x 81.9 cm | 24 3/8 x 32 1/4 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    negative, 2023
    Oil on linen, framed
    61.9 x 81.9 cm | 24 3/8 x 32 1/4 in
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  • Ciarán Murphy portrait, 2023 Oil on linen 100 x 120 cm | 39 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    portrait, 2023
    Oil on linen
    100 x 120 cm | 39 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
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  • Ciarán Murphy virtually neighbours 2, 2023 Oil on linen, framed 51.9 x 61.9 cm | 20 1/2 x 24 3/8 in
    Ciarán Murphy
    virtually neighbours 2, 2023
    Oil on linen, framed
    51.9 x 61.9 cm | 20 1/2 x 24 3/8 in
Installation Views
  • Grimm26
  • Installation View Still Weight Thing 2023 Grimm Ny 3
  • Grimm36
  • Installation View Still Weight Thing 2023 Grimm Ny 9
  • Installation View Still Weight Thing 2023 Grimm Ny 13
  • Installation View Still Weight Thing 2023 Grimm Ny 11
  • Installation View Still Weight Thing 2023 Grimm Ny 12
  • Installation View Still Weight Thing 2023 Grimm Ny 15
Press release
Ciarán Murphy | flutter, 2023
Ciarán Murphy | flutter, 2023
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GRIMM is pleased to present still, weight, thing, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Irish artist Ciarán Murphy this December. This will be artist's second exhibition at the New York gallery and his first at the gallery's current Tribeca location.

Ciarán Murphy’s practice grapples with the saturated, albeit fragmented, state of the image economy and the various paradoxes therein. The title of the exhibition, still, weight, thing underscores an interest in the cross-sections of visual language, where alternative meaning hovers just beyond the forefront of understanding. The artist’s representations dissolve, reappear, and coalesce in a manner that suggests a very human, cognitive observation, contrasting with the credible, and thus predictable, nature of technological or mechanical image making.

These tensions are explored through various dichotomies within the paintings. The work sonomus places its image of a bird atop grey ‘noise’, exacerbating the push and pull between foreground and background. The painting windworld presents a set of arms that at once rest heavy yet float in isolation, weightless, in the picture plane. Both portait and moon day hover between absence and presence, lending themselves to another shared commonality across Murphy’s work: an evasive nature with subjects that refuse to be captured. Zebras rush into and out of the canvas in herd just as the driver in drive there appears partially withheld but persists forward.

In the essay titled Earth’s Echo, published by the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin (IE) on the occasion of Murphy’s 2022 solo exhibition Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, writer Dan Fox states: 

“The word ‘dreamlike’ would be an easy adjective to reach for. However, that would make me wonder how a physical, tangible thing in the world, such as a painting on a wall, could be compared to the intangible, gossamer blooms of the subconscious. A dream vanishes. A painting remains on the wall.“ The artist explores “the moment of cognition, the instant that the sense of a thing emerges from a sea of marks and colors.”

About the Artist

Ciarán Murphy received his BA at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin (IE) in 2003 and his MA in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS), IADT, Dublin (IE) in 2005. 

Solo exhibitions include this appear, GRIMM, London (UK); Solid Gone, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; The Model, Sligo and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (IE); there, there now, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Hundreds of Nature, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Plainsight, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); A Round Now, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY (US); The Paradise, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE); All That’s Air Melts Into Solid, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Ciarán Murphy, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE); March, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (IE); Ciarán Murphy, Cerealart, Philadelphia, PA (US); and Ciarán Murphy, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL (US).

His work is in the collections of the AzkoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin (IE); Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin (IE); MOVE, Amsterdam (NL); Sanders Collection, Haarlem (NL); and the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao (CN), among others.

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Press
  • Niamh O’Malley and Ciarán Murphy, in Conversation

    Osman Can Yerebakan, Elephant, January 5, 2024
  • Chance and Chaos: A Q&A with Ciarán Murphy and Niamh O’Malley

    Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly, Observer, December 11, 2023
Video
Related content
  • Niamh O’Malley and Ciarán Murphy, in Conversation Press

    Niamh O’Malley and Ciarán Murphy, in Conversation

    Elephant January 5, 2024
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  • Chance and Chaos: A Q&A with Ciarán Murphy and Niamh O’Malley Press

    Chance and Chaos: A Q&A with Ciarán Murphy and Niamh O’Malley

    Observer December 11, 2023
    Read more

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