Jeff Murphy : Photography / Time + Digital Arts

Jeff Murphy has been working with digital media for the past two decades, exploring the aesthetic parameters of sound, video, interactivity and digital printing. He has exhibited on the World Wide Web, developed interactive multimedia projects, and has participated in numerous solo and juried group exhibitions in both the Unites States and abroad. including solo exhibitions at The Mint Museum of Art, The University of Miami, The University of Notre Dame, The University of Colorado, and The Light Factory.

Even though his creative endeavors have taken multiple forms, many of them have dealt with issues of spiritual identity. His recent works are photographically based and use the latest archival pigments in the printing process. These images often examine the landscape and structures related to religious practice. The works are printed on canvas and archival papers and are composites from several digital photographs shot on location. Murphy began this work in 2000 with trips to Italy and Vatican City (due to his Catholic upbringing), but has expanded the conceptual boundaries to include multiple notions of religious and spiritual identity. In 2002 and 2003, he traveled to Central America to focus on Mayan Temple ruins and investigate comparative religious viewpoints. Just recently, he returned from Spain where he spent a month in residency at the Rodríguez-Amat Center for Contemporary Art and photographed both the Holy week processions in Sevilla and various architectural structures, such as the Mezquita in Cordoba, that reflect the visual convergence of Islam and Christianity.