This painting features a serene still life composition against a dark, muted background. The visuals elements showcase a predominant use of earthy tones, with soft, rounded shapes and textures that create a sense of depth and intimacy. The subject matter depicts a collection of everyday objects, including a crumpled cloth, a jar, and a wrinkled paper rose, suggesting a contemplative and introspective mood. The artistic style and technique appear to be representational, with a focus on capturing the nuances of light and shadow to imbue the scene with a sense of quiet contemplation. The overall context of the work likely explores themes of the transient nature of life and the quiet beauty found in the mundane. ...
Deborah Hanson Murphy was a painter whose meticulous work consists of a series of paintings she called “Variations”. These works are both understated and rigorous in their composition and approach to colour, elaborating over many years a series of forms, repeated serially throughout her still lives to the point where they no longer are able to remain still; the floor recedes from under the objects, suspended in space, the forms shed their names and take on other qualities.
Hanson Murphy (b. Stockton, USA, 1931; d. Paris, France, 2018) was largely overlooked as a painter during her lifetime. She graduated in 1953 from Stanford University and was a student at the Art Students League in New York from 1957 to 1958. She worked mostly in Paris, her adopted city, where she lived from 1968 until her death. ...
Balice Hertling was founded in 2007 by Daniele Balice and Alexander Hertling. Balice Hertling has hosted the debut solo shows of many artists like Camille Blatrix, Xinyi Cheng and Isabelle Cornaro—all of whom have gone on to earn widespread recognition. From 2012 to 2016, gallery founders Daniele Balice and Alexander Hertling operated a project space in Manhattan. Returning to France in 2017, they relocated the main gallery to Paris’ Marais district and transformed the former Belleville location into a space for curated projects and shows by younger artists. Indeed, many artists represented by the gallery exemplify unique subcommunities of the emergent art world. This breadth of representation also translates to a breadth of medium, as the gallery represents painters as well as artists working in mixed media such as film, performance and sculptural objects. The gallery also represents artists whose careers are more established : British conceptual artist Stephen Willats, Syrian-born painter and sculptor Simone Fattal, and Italian artist Enzo Cucchi. In its programming and practices, Balice Hertling constantly works toward creating a more diverse and equitable art landscape. In this spirit, the gallery is proud to represent the Estate of Behjat Sadr, who was the first woman artist to be recognized as a modern master in Iran. As a result of the pandemic, the gallery co-founded « Palai » in the summer of 2021, a yearly exhibition hosting a small group of galleries from around the world, in historic locations in Lecce, a city in Italy's Puglia region. Palai is neither a curated exhibition nor a fair, it is thought to be a version of a residency, a collegial collaboration, where artists, galleries, and friends of the art world come together. In 2021 Balice Hertling relocated and brought closer both spaces in the Marais with a new main space inaugurated by a Ser Serpas scultpure solo show, and a new showroom and project space on rue de Montmorency. ...
