Exhibition of Drawings with David Humphrey opens January 25, New York School

22 January, 2021

Medrie MacPhee is kicking off the Biden era with a duo exhibition entitled Inner Workings: Works on Paper by David Humphrey and Medrie MacPhee at The New York Studio School Gallery.

“Opening” from 4-8pm Monday January 25. Medrie, David and curator Karen Wilkin will be in attendance.

The exhibition runs from January 25 – February 28, 2021. Covid restrictions are in place.

In the words of the exhibition curator Karen Wilkin:

“Both artists build potent metaphors for our difficult present. Humphrey’s compositions trigger recollections of horrifying current events, while MacPhee’s brooding abstractions echo the stresses of the past year. The intimacy of their works on paper intensifies the resonance of their inventions.”

– click here to read the full press release

– click here for a full list of the works exhibited.

– see the website for more details and to see all the photos from the exhibition.

NOTE: Works in this exhibition can be found in the Recent Works on Paper section of this site.
 

Photos of the exhibition

Nicholas Metivier Gallery Online Group Exhibition and Video

20 May, 2020

From April 28 to May 23, 2020 Medrie MacPhee is exhibiting two works in the virtual group exhibition On Paper | Part I. The exhibition brings together a unique selection of works on paper by various painters and sculptors who demonstrate drawing’s importance in providing creative freedom and inspiration in their respective practices. The other artists in the show include Shelley Adler, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Joachim Bandau, Bobbie Burgers, John Hartman, Landon Mackenzie, Linda Martinello, Charles Meanwell, Ben Reeves, John Scott, David Shapiro and Richard Tuttle. Click here to view all the works in the virtual exhibition.

Medrie MacPhee presents two works in the exhibition, Spiralling Up from 2018 and Inchoate Encounter from 2019, along with the following statement:

“Many of these current works on paper including ‘Inchoate Encounter’ {2019} are part of a series that I did while a fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation just south of Genoa, Italy last fall – before the unthinkable situation we are in now. The Ligurian coast is a visual mashup achieved through the architecture whose exteriors combine pastel colour, fresco, faux painting and especially trompe l’oeil. Fairly austere conjoined buildings become grand through their “fake” windows, bricks, arches, pilasters, balustrades around windows and doors. The limited palette – strictly prescribed by public ordinance – animates each building within a harmonic order in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In retrospect the joy I felt in opening my studio windows each morning to the dazzling sea below seems manifest in this work.”

Click here to see Medrie’s “Artist Voice” blog post on the Nicholas Metivier Gallery website which includes the video below of a statement concerning the current Covid-18 crisis and five new paintings photographed in her studio.

American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational and Art Purchase Award

10 May, 2020

Four paintings by Medrie MacPhee were selected for the American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational exhibition. The twenty-eight exhibiting artists were chosen from over 150 nominees submitted by the members of the Academy, America’s most prestigious honorary society of architects, artists, composers and writers. The exhibition was intended to run from March 5-15 but was closed early in the interest of public health. Click here to see complete documentation of the exhibition.

The recipients of the Academy’s 2020 Award winners were selected from this exhibition. Medrie MacPhee was among the visual artists honored with an Art Purchase Program Award. This is her second time winning the award (2015).

Group exhibition at The Galleries at Moore with Ulrike Müller

14 November, 2019

Or Both is an experimental two-part exhibition that includes a solo presentation of work by Ulrike Müller alongside a group show of works by Martin Beck, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Jennie C. Jones, Eric N. Mack, Medrie MacPhee, Dona Nelson, and Deborah Remington. MacPhee is presenting two large paintings (Night’s Noontime (2019) and Whiteout (2018)). The show is up until December 7, at The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia PA.

https://moore.edu/the-galleries-at-moore/exhibitions

Inducted as member of the National Academy of Design in New York

19 June, 2019

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, the National Academy of Design inducted its newest class of National Academicians. Medrie MacPhee was among the visual artists inducted this year. (Photo of the National Academicians Class of 2019: Regina Bogat, Squeak Carnwaith, Sharon Davis, Steve DeBenedetto, Brenda Goodman, Michelle Grabner, Elana Herzog, Titus Kaphar, Annette Lemieux, Medrie MacPhee, Sangram Majumdar, Chris Martin, Carrie Moyer, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Richard Olcott, Jim Osman.)

National Academicians are professional artists and architects who are elected to membership by their peers annually. They represent some of the most distinguished practitioners in their respective fields. Becoming a National Academician is one of the highest honors in American art and architecture and cannot be applied for or solicited. In a tradition dating back to 1825, current members confidentially nominate and elect a new class each year, honoring the group’s remarkable contributions to the canon and story of American art. (source: NAD)

Named as a Fellow by the Bogliasco Foundation

18 April, 2019

“The Bogliasco Foundation supports the Arts and Humanities by providing residential Fellowships at its study center in Italy’s most vibrant, historic crossroads, where gifted artists and scholars of all cultures come together to connect, create and disseminate significant new work.

The Bogliasco Foundation awards one-month Fellowships to individuals of all ages and nationalities who have made significant contributions in the arts and humanities. Fellows live and work in bucolic surroundings on the coast near Genoa, where natural beauty combines with an intimate group setting to encourage inquiry and transformative exchange across all disciplines.”

Source: www.bfny.org

Recipient 2018-2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

5 September, 2018

Pollock-Krasner grants provide support to artists for the creation of new work. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, a leading abstract expressionist painter and widow of Jackson Pollock. Since its inception the Foundation has awarded over four thousand grants to artists in 77 countries. Medrie MacPhee was among the 2018-2019 recipients.

Six Reviews of Scavenge

30 May, 2017

Goings on About Town New Yorker, 2017.

“Scavenge”, Time Out – New York, June 17, 2017.

Stephen Maine, The Clothes Make the Painting, Hyperallergic, July 8, 2017

“Comfort Clothing for Fraught Times”: Medrie MacPhee in conversation with Leslie Wayne, Artcritical: the online magazine of art and ideas, 2017.

Sharon Butler, “Medrie MacPhee: Flat-out at Tibor de Nagy”, Two Coats of Paint, June 17, 2017.

Caroline Goldstein: “From the Future of Feminism to Cat Art: 12 Things to See in New York This Week”, Artnet News’ Editors-Picks, June 12, 2017.

Scavenge, solo show at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC

29 May, 2017

Medrie Macphee is showing a series of new work in an exhibition entitled Scavenge from June 15 to July 28, 2017. It is the inaugural exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery‘s new location at 11/15 Rivington St. in New York City. Opening Reception Thursday, June 15, 6-8 pm.

“This body of work presents a significant shift for MacPhee who is known for her use of architecture and architectural forms to create narratives around the ideas of a dystopian future/past. In 2012, MacPhee began a fake fashion line (RELAX) out of cheap discount clothing. The premise was total comfort in a fraught time… Gradually what had been a “fashion” sideline began finding its way into the paintings. Sometimes the clothing fabric is a detail in a larger painting and other times it covers the entire surface…”

Click to read the full press release.

Video of opening courtesy of Paul Caranicas

Photos of installation and opening at Tibor de Nagy Gallery courtesy of Drew Shiflett & Wendy White.

 

 

 

99 Cents or Less Group Show at MOCAD

10 May, 2017

Medrie MacPhee joins the ninety-nine US artists for a major group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). 99 Cents or Less addresses Detroit’s ongoing economic crisis and its 2013 bankruptcy (1).

Each artist was given a check for 99 dollars to purchase items at 99-cent stores. Macphee bought clothes and notions which she collaged together to create two outfits entitled The Precariats (“a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.” –Wikipedia). 99 Cents or Less opens May 19 and continuing until August 6, 2017 in downtown Detroit.

Preview of works in the exhibition: The Precariats: Male figure (72 x 21 x 11 in.) and Female figure (72 x 21 x 11 in.). Photos: John Berens

 

 

Installation views at MOCAD.

 

See the full panel discussion with curator Jens Hoffmann, MacPhee and 12 other artists at MOCAD, June 21, 2017.