January 2012

Evolution

Lucinda Friendly Murphy has been fascinated by science and the process of evolution, from the Big Bang to computers. Change seems to be the only constant. This passion has led her to explore through some of the unanswered questions in science.

Most recently, Murphy has focused on exploring order and chaos from both the scientific sense and in the sense of how we perceive the difference; literally and psychologically. Agnes Martin, an American abstract painter, suggests that “art is a record of mindfulness.” Murphy likes to think that her work will increase the “mindfulness” of those who pause to look at it.

Murphy is a Washington, D.C. native. The first 20 years of her adult career, Murphy was a landscape architect. At age 40, she returned to school to study art at the Corcoran School of Art and American University. Her work has also been highly influenced byher travels and studies in China, Mexico and the former Czechoslovakia.

You can view more of her work at www.lucindafriendlymurphy.com.

Watch the artist interview here.