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.

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“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.