{"id":23549,"date":"2014-12-03T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=23549"},"modified":"2014-12-11T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T03:26:28","slug":"luke-murphy-at-canada-at-nada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2014\/12\/03\/luke-murphy-at-canada-at-nada\/","title":{"rendered":"~LUKE MURPHY . . at CANADA at NADA"},"content":{"rendered":"

wow. I didn’t realize til just now, that CANADA . . and NADA rhyme.
\nthere has to be something to that, no ?<\/p>\n

at any rate, the other artist to watch out for during MIAMI ART FAIR WEEK 2014, is also at NADA . . <\/p>\n

the amazing LUKE MURPHY, who is kind of a poster child for the explosion of mental creativity that happens when deep thoughts, about the universe and ‘being’ . . of course (!!) hit hardcore hands-on . . digital knowledge. <\/p>\n

I’ve been fascinated by Luke’s work ever since I happened upon his early solo show ‘Slope Of Anxiety’ in 2001 at the very earliest CANADA gallery venue, when it was located, in the aftermath of Pseudo’s ‘Quiet’ – in the basement of that grimy storefront building on Broadway, deep downtown . . where we had staged that blow-out million dollar Millennium Party, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC . . and I was collecting the rent for Josh.<\/p>\n

looking back, that seems so apt, so auspicious . . so meaningful, so MAGIC, so TRUTHFUL, so RANDOM !!
\nso how<\/strong> the Universe – works.
\nto stumble across LUKE – like that . . in the ashes<\/strong> of that . . huge, futuristic, 99+ artist, wired, early social network grid of a creative art party \/ blow-out. <\/p>\n

LUKE was like the single ‘seed’ of the future, peeking it’s head out – from the burned-out chaos.<\/p>\n

it’s hard to define the realms that LUKE MURPHY traverses, except that the interactive ‘random’ animation – that appears as an ongoing ‘banner’ at the top<\/strong> of this page, pretty much . . says it all.
\nwe don’t live in a ‘solid state’ . . in any more !!
\nand everyone is<\/strong> . . connected.<\/p>\n

LUKE will be showing 3 (very different) digital projections at the CANADA, NADA MIAMI BOOTH 2014 . .
\nhe writes that they are “about drawing, suspended potential, and trying to recognize truth, i.e. pretty lines and colors on a small screen.”
\n!! x !! x !! <\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘Watching Potential’, 2014<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘KuniyoshiX Genz’, 2014<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘Test Patterns’, 2014<\/p>\n

you can actually, watch ‘Test Patterns’ on his website: ‘Test Patterns’\/Works<\/a><\/p>\n

it’s not just the color intervals, and how that ‘adds’ up to: BLACK, and . . the ‘VOID’ – but it’s also about the speeds at which ‘events’ happen, and with Luke that means randomness, and ‘generated’ numbers. <\/p>\n

the other super interesting piece on that WORKS PAGE<\/a>, is . . ‘Bad Eye Good Eye’. not only . . as an animation, and that it . . steps into real world ‘bio’ human imagery, but also because – it serves as an example of Luke’s . . dark side !!
\n!! x !! x !!<\/p>\n

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watch: LUKE MURPHY, ‘Good Eye, Bad Eye’.<\/a><\/p>\n

so what I mean, is Luke also<\/strong> moves, image-wise – between the totally abstract, and the real (human) world.
\nin this universe, it’s all inter-connected – particles, patterns and . . humans. birth and decay, repeat.
\noh yeah, I forgot: reproduce – i.e. pattern.
\nbirth, reproduce, decay.<\/p>\n

you can wander around in his multi-faceted world for yourself: LUKE MURPHY\/LUKELAB<\/a><\/p>\n

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but maybe, the text in the ‘Happy Sad Bones’<\/a> project . . will help shed some light ?<\/p>\n

and yes, that little green glass frog . . emits radioactive signals, which is picked up by the microphone, which in turn generates the ‘random’ numbers. of the digital animations.
\nthat little frog is actually a piece of vintage, so-called ‘vaseline’ or uranium glass<\/a> . . !!<\/p>\n

it’s part of the . . RANDOMNESS – section<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY . . in his Harlem studio, NYC. SEPT 1, 2014
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

LUKE MURPHY – artist, magician, code developer, pattern animator, randomness-maker, philosopher . . !! x !! x !!
\nall I know is . . this is a guy who lives 9 lives, and if half of them are SECRET, the others are surely: ‘half life’ – as in . . the ‘longevity of radioactive particles’. <\/p>\n

in other words:
\nin the huge world of ‘art’ today, witness this Miami Art Fair week – LUKE MURPHY is a one-of-a-kind, in other words: he is<\/strong> a . . singularity. <\/p>\n

so check out, Luke’s . . ‘projections’ at the CANADA \/ NADA MIAMI 2014 BOOTH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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