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.

Attending BAU Institute’s summer residency in Cassis, France

10 May, 2017

This summer, Medrie MacPhee will participate in the BAU Institute‘s summer arts residency in Cassis France hosted by the Camargo Foundation. From July 24 to August 21, she will be working on a series of works on paper related to recent paintings.

photo: The Camargo Foundation

Recipient of Anonymous Was A Woman Award

13 October, 2016

Medrie MacPhee is among 10 women artists from the US, Mexico, Iran, Cuba, Canada, and Japan to be named as this year’s recipients of the Anonymous Was A Woman Award. The name of the grant program refers to a line in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. The grant is awarded to artists over 40 years of age “who have made significant contributions in their fields to date, while continuing to exhibit originality and creative potential through ongoing work.” MacPhee is in the company of Shiva Ahmadi, Laura Anderson Barbata, Tania Bruguera, Sonya Clark, Simone Leigh, Eiko Otake, Rona Pondick, Lourdes Portillo and Shinique Smith.

For more information see: the official press release, the list of 2016 award winners, or the Anonymous Was A Woman Award site

Interview by Sharon Butler on “Two Coats of Paint”

18 March, 2016

Sharon Butler sits down with Medrie MacPhee to discuss imagery, humour, color, technique and more. Two Coats of Paint is an NYC-based art project, that includes an award-winning art blog with an emphasis on contemporary painting and related issues.

Click here to read.

“All That Jazz” installed in Mies van der Rohe building in Toronto

23 September, 2015

Medrie MacPhee’s large scale commission was installed in the lobby of the Mies Van der Rohe central tower of the TD Center in Toronto, near King and Bay Street.  Titled “All That Jazz,” it echoes the period in which Mies worked and the strong association of jazz with 20th century modernism. The painting has a musical dimension, combining abstraction with architectural form.

 

 

Studio Shots of “All That Jazz” – Summer of 2015

24 August, 2015

Medrie Macphee working on All That Jazz in her studio, 2015.

Creating commission for Mies van der Rohe building, Toronto

31 March, 2015

Medrie MacPhee is currently creating a major painting for the lobby of the main tower of the Mies van der Rohe building in Toronto. It is a commission from the Cadillac Fairview Corporation to be completed by the end of June.

(photo: Jesse David Harris)

Received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibit and Purchase Award

31 March, 2015

Medrie MacPhee is among the recipients of the 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibit and Purchase Award.