Unfounded: Madison
3D printed ceramic, underglaze
16x12x12", 2020
Unfounded: Washington
3D printed ceramic, underglaze
18x12x10", 2020
%C2%A9 2023 Bri Murphy
3D printed ceramic, underglaze
16x12x12", 2020
Unfounded: Washington
3D printed ceramic, underglaze
18x12x10", 2020
%C2%A9 2023 Bri Murphy
Bri Murphy
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Biography
Bri Murphy is an interdisciplinary artist, who combines digital technologies such as 3D printing with more traditional materials, influenced by their background in ceramics. Their work explores notions of American identity through the deconstruction of its mythologies %E2%80%93 from busts of the Founding Fathers to treasured prose such as the Declaration of Independence. Bri is an active researcher and tinkerer, and has given several guest lectures and workshops, most notably at the 2019 NCECA conference in Minneapolis.
Bri began their career as an artist selling drawings to their mom for 25%C2%A2 apiece, spending their childhood years in Essex Junction, Vermont. Bri holds an MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University as well as Bachelor's degrees in Ceramics and Art Education from SUNY New Paltz. They are the former Gallery Director at the LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska and Artist-in-Residence at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Bri currently teaches Sculpture and Digital Fabrication at the University of Northern Colorado.
Bri began their career as an artist selling drawings to their mom for 25%C2%A2 apiece, spending their childhood years in Essex Junction, Vermont. Bri holds an MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University as well as Bachelor's degrees in Ceramics and Art Education from SUNY New Paltz. They are the former Gallery Director at the LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska and Artist-in-Residence at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Bri currently teaches Sculpture and Digital Fabrication at the University of Northern Colorado.
