Notes from the Gallery
January 2022
New Gallery Artist! | New Work from Shane Pendley | 2021 Gallery in Review | How to Prepare for a Framing Consultation | Art World News
Art World News

Our selection of news from the international art world:
Introducing New Gallery Artist
David Skillicorn!

New year, new gallery artist! Michael Murphy Gallery proudly welcomes David Skillicorn into the gallery artist lineup.

Based in New York and Massachusetts, David Skillicorn has been creating luminous abstract paintings for more than twenty-five years. He explores complex spatial and color relationships through the use of texture, organic line, and sensuous fields of color. In mixed media works on canvas, Skillicorn creates sophisticated, intuitive paintings alive with surface texture, lush paint of vibrant colors in bold strokes over atmospheric passages.
Skillicorn's life as a visual artist began with extensive work with video in the late 1970's, leading to an earlier career as a multiple Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker. His visual vocabulary deepened through those years while filming more than a million images across a wide spectrum of cultures and landscapes in more than forty countries. His intensive experiences filming the textures of culture, color and landscape throughout the world have had a lasting impact on his visual sensibilities and inform the unique visual language he has brought to his work as an abstract painter for the past twenty-five years.

Skillicorn shows his work regularly at premiere galleries throughout the country and his paintings are part of innumerable public and private collections, including Johns Hopkins, Regent Hotel, Intel, Temple University and many others.
New Work from Gallery Artist Shane Pendley
Eight new pieces by gallery artist Shane Pendley have arrived in the gallery to kick off the new year. We love his iconic reds as well as three that he's brightened into a blush. Their titles come together to make the following poem:


“The stag, her fable, lectured on bent ear.
The blood eagle erodes from the burden’s year
This glow, this orb of radiance is evermore.
Evermore, within a climbing sun,
evermore shallow on the forest shore.
Decadence once reined this heart, this whore!
For one more night under the echo and shimmers,
this hunt still remains hunted and overgrown once more.”

- Shane Pendley


We're excited to find this beautiful poetry-based series a new home!
2021 Gallery in Review
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Exhibits and Events
From Dali to Donaldson, we were proud to present these fantastic exhibits to our community. Look back on your favorite event memories on our website event page.
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Artists Represented
New and old, regional and international, always creating with passion and vision. Browse our gallery artists and their work on our website.
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of Lovingly Crafted Frames
Our frames are works of art in their own right. With over 40 years of experience, our framing masters knock every framing project out of the park.
Thank you for a wonderful 2021!
From the Framing Masters:
How to Prepare for a Framing Consultation at Michael Murphy Framing


The holiday craze has passed and the New Year is full of potential. This is the perfect time of the year to tackle your dream framing project! Scheduling a consultation at Michael Murphy Framing is the first step of an exciting, artistic framing process that you will not find anywhere else. Read on to learn about what goes into our framing consultations and what you can do to prepare.
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