caitlyn murphy

Hot summer in the city – I can smell these paintings from here! Yep, a fine blend of overripe fruit, damp cardboard, and cigarettes. Ahhh, makes me miss the days when I lived at Queen & Spadina … kinda. This is the memory-inducing work {gouache on paper} of Toronto based artist Caitlyn Murphy. Happy Friday… and don’t forget to buy your watermelon in the morning before it gets too hot!






comments (6)

  1. Laura Johnston /// 08.18.2017 /// 12:04pm

    I love these!!! The one with the ripe bananas and pink boxes is especially swoonalicious. Also love the unique quality of gouache.

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    […] artist Caitlyn Murphy, who we first learned about on the Jealous Curator, creates tactile gouache-on-paper paintings of produce that city people are all too familiar with. […]

  5. Minimalist Paintings of Produce That Evoke the Weird Charm of City Living /// 08.28.2017 /// 6:07am

    […] artist Caitlyn Murphy, who we first learned about on the Jealous Curator, creates tactile gouache-on-paper paintings of produce that city people are all too familiar with. […]

  6. caitlyn murphy - fooledbyart /// 12.28.2020 /// 1:31am

    […] into, well, this? Clearly I had to write about her again. Yep, I wrote about her beautifully boring cardboard box series way back in 2017. Sigh. Again. Happy Monday. Thank you for your […]