Margaret Murphy
Good Girls/Bad Girls
In this new series of watercolor and acrylic paintings on paper I am taking an up close and personal look at mass produced figurines that depict women as either “good” or “bad” according to cultural norms. I find my source material at stores and web sites that cater to the general consumer public like ebay, souvenir stores, 99cent stores, the neighborhood greeting card store and party stores. In one cases the figurine is a re-clining female figure in thigh high stockings that rests on her back. The object itself is made to house a cell phone. In my painting Reclining Figure (after Kurosawa) she is laying in a field of flowers or camouflage print. In...
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