{"id":28438,"date":"2016-03-03T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=28438"},"modified":"2016-03-03T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T22:10:53","slug":"luke-murphy-unhappy-users-opening-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2016\/03\/03\/luke-murphy-unhappy-users-opening-pix\/","title":{"rendered":"~LUKE MURPHY . . UNHAPPY USERS – OPENING PIX"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUKE MURPHY – ‘UNHAPPY USERS’
\nopened FEB 20, 2016
\n5 the show runs thru MARCH 20, 2016
\nCANADA<\/a>, 333 BROOME ST – LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC <\/p>\n

more: background<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.canadanewyork.com\/exhibitions\/2016\/unhappy-users\/<\/p>\n

PIX FROM THE OPENING, SAT FEB 20, 2016<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, and TYSON REEDER, at the opening.<\/p>\n

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\nROB HULT, SYRETTE, and SAM WILSON.
\nNicholas Hult and Sam Wilson, along with 2 others – are co-onwer\/directors of Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery.
\nSyrette Lew is a contemporary furniture\/jewelry\/lamps\/interiors designer – her studio is quite lovely, cutting edge and very chic, it’s called . . Moving Mountains.
\nsee: MOVING MOUNTAINS – mvngmtns.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nartist MELISSA BROWN, of the famed underground artist casino betting, performance games.<\/p>\n

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\nERIC MONTY . . been a fixture on the Lower East Side hood, from way back in the day, Pen & Brush (1989), Rivington School and Gas Station.<\/p>\n

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\nOLIVIA PLATO, a British visual anthropologist currently here on a visit, she told me my thrift shop, Jersey City Heights (!!) rescued, $2 hand-woven bag – was actually quite a nice piece of authentic folk art, and that it was made by the KOGUI & ARHUACO indigenous peoples of Columbia, South Amercia – awhose culture is old, very old .. Pre-Columbian.
\nshe knew because she had just spent 4 years living & studying among them.
\nhow profoundly & powerfully interesting, is the world we move through, even without (formal) Shamans, is all I can say.
\nor: some ‘unhappy’ user donated this – and I found it.
\ngo figure !! the ultimate soul sister DIY . . lost and found !!<\/p>\n

talking about . . ‘thrift’ shops and ‘ancients’ bye the way . . does ‘Spring Break 2016’ – ring a bell, a faux ‘thrift ship’ . . bell.
\nif you follow the art scene, you’ll get the reference. if not, don’t worry about it.
\n it’s not that . . important. <\/p>\n

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\nI knew my hand-woven & very sturdy bucket bag was special, but I didn’t know it came from such ancient native roots. well, it found a good home. someone must have received it as a souvenir, I read these bags are the now the ‘symbol’ of Columbia, and being clueless – they donated it to the local Salvation Army, where I picked it up for all of $2 brand new. at least they didn’t just chuck it.<\/p>\n

it’s kind of funnie, profound, and karmic . . . because Luke’s show has a lot of ‘weaving’ in it. both metaphorically, the web !! digital social media etc etc, and technically . . the interlocked coding of the LED lights, the inter-wovenness of the ‘found’ keyboard tunnel . . . but also literally, in a design . . to be revealed !!<\/p>\n

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\nLuke Murphy’s paintings on canvas cascade down the ‘west’ wall of the gorgeous double height front room of the new Canada gallery. yes, it’s the first time I’ve been there.
\nwest wall, yes . . they had a seeking, rushing, profound depth to them. philosophical cries out – for civilization, and human-ness amongst the seemingly random scribbles. and symbols. and gestures, and color darts.
\nin short, code . . very human: bio vs gesture vs symbol vs past vs future. <\/p>\n

communication, and transition – are key words I would use to describe the heart and soul of Luke’s work. I’ve been following his work with great passion & devotion . . every since I just happened to back into his first solo exhibit at a very nascent Canada gallery, on Lower Broadway, in Tribeca – in the basement of a Josh Harris \/ Pseudo experimental project building, must have been – sometime in early 2000.<\/p>\n

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\nLuke is a very multi-talented, uber complicated kind of guy. a big technical whiz, a big thinker.
\nhis shows are always very, vastly different, he’s also really really into graphic design, and cutting edge communication. as well as . . the mysteries of our deep past, thoughts about the infrastructure of the deep future \/ cosmos.<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘I Need 2 Always Make Back-Ups’, 2015.
\nacrylic on canvas. 84 x 72 in.<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘User Explains Selfie to Other User-Friend’, 2015.
\nacrylic on canvas. 70 x 58 in.<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘Users Color Theory – No blue’, 2016.
\nacrylic on canvas, 58 x 72 in.<\/p>\n

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\nLuke told me the ‘N’ is a symbol or bookmark for: “any number’ . . . in an equation or theory, or code. nice calligraphy hand skills, bye the bye.
\nhe also told me ‘N’ could stand for NANCY, and still mean the same thing, lol – and . . why, not ? <\/p>\n

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\nand then we ‘transition’ through the gallery, through time, and through plastic space – in his tunnel of ‘found’and, looks like discarded . . keyboards. warped, and interlocked, frozen into a greater whole. yes they are quite literally . . WOVEN.
\nand, yes they are metaphors. and, yes, tunnel of love – did<\/strong> come to mind.
\nand yes . . the sure to come days of purely mental<\/strong> telepathic or somehow otherwise transmitted comunication, as in: no keyboard . . keyboards are obsolete and used for re-cycled building materials ?
\ndid associate . . too. <\/p>\n

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\neverybody was captivated walking through this. that’s why I’m saying, go see it.
\nit’s an . . ‘experience’.
\nbut, damn I wonder if it’s . . for sale ?
\nDamien Hirst, look out . . and you don’t<\/strong> need a haz mat team to maintain it.<\/p>\n

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\nlike I said, w-o-v-e-n.
\nancient pre-Columbian skills meet future obsolete . . now !! that is a trip though the looking glass, or what ?
\nit’s almost a keyboard weaving \/ time travel machine.
\nif you push it, and you can. ‘transition’ is at your finger tips.<\/p>\n

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\nthe back room was home to an array of varying, small animated LED light boxes, each plugged into the electric sockets on the bottom of the walls.<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘You Win!!!’, 2016.
\nLED matrix panels, Rasberry Pi micro<\/strong>controller, software. 20 x 20 in.
\nedition 1\/3.
\nabsurdist and strange – this one was about . . 2 guesses !!
\nweaving !! how comforting, especially . . with that little smiley face.
\nanimated infra structure, hard working code, graphic design interface, pattern, design, and – not to forget . . human\/bio humor smack dab – in the middle of a world of increasing computerization & robots, even artificial intelligence ?<\/p>\n

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\nstraight angle . . weaving.
\nas simple and basic as you can get.<\/p>\n

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\nwa-wa-weaving.<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘Emojies$EverXoX’, 2016.
\nLED matrix panels, Rasberry Pi micro<\/strong>controller, sofware. 5 x 20 in. edition 1\/7.
\nlove & kisses – the most basic human code.<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘Departure’, 2016.
\nLED matrix panels, Rasberry Pi micro<\/strong>controller, software
\n20 x 20 in.
\njump on that plane.<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘What Color’, 2016.
\nLED matrix panels, Rasberry Pi micro<\/strong>controller, software.
\n25 x 20 in.
\n‘EN JE’<\/strong> . . . ?
\nwtf.
\nthat’s my BEST FRIEND, ERIN JENSEN’S . . USER HANDLE on IG !!
\nfer real !! <\/p>\n

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\nLUKE MURPHY, ‘Bad pixel’, 2016
\nLED matrix panels, Rasberry Pi micro<\/strong>controller, softwarw
\n20 x 20 in.<\/p>\n

ha ha the . . ‘bad pixel’.
\nyou get it – right ? the unhappy user – comes to mind.
\nwell, and even in traditional weaving, as opposed to weaving by lights, colors, and code . . . there are always<\/strong> small mistakes . . dropped stitches, color errors, etc etc, and to soothe the distraught weaver – it’s considered . . a sign of god.
\nit’s called . . God’s hand.
\nonly God is perfect. to err is human. our early Shakers & Quakers and the pilgrims they sprung from used to insert ‘manufactured’ errors, on purpose – because pride was sinful.
\nmaybe our computers & phones & hard drives are just like us.
\nand way – more than we give them credit for. <\/p>\n

sometimes even our various digital devices skip a beat, run out of memory, degrade, de-charge, break down, or just plain fade way.
\nyes, and thus: the unhappy user . . feels like an . . old time ‘loser’.
\nlol – light up my imagination & chart the path . . Luke Murphy.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LUKE MURPHY – ‘UNHAPPY USERS’ opened FEB 20, 2016 5 the show runs thru MARCH 20, 2016 CANADA, 333 BROOME ST – LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC more: background https:\/\/www.canadanewyork.com\/exhibitions\/2016\/unhappy-users\/ PIX FROM THE OPENING, SAT FEB 20, 2016 LUKE MURPHY, and TYSON REEDER, at the opening. ROB HULT, SYRETTE, and SAM WILSON. Nicholas Hult and Sam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28438"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28500,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438\/revisions\/28500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}