{"id":994,"date":"2009-09-01T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/brian_murphy_in_unzipped_its_n_1\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:35:40","slug":"brian_murphy_in_unzipped_its_n_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/brian_murphy_in_unzipped_its_n_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Brian Murphy in Unzipped. It&#8217;s not Artforum."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of body featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unzipped.net\/\">Unzipped<\/a>, a sex mag for men.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"unzipped.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/unzipped.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" \/><\/span>This is the body soon to be featured in a piece written by the peerless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdavewhite.com\/\">Dave White<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brianmurphy1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/brianmurphy1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"336\" \/><\/span>Have<br \/>\ndevotees of the rock hard decided to lighten up on their<br \/>\nfat phobia? It&#8217;s better than that. Their putting their phobias aside to<br \/>\nembrace art. Unzipped wants to add more substantial content to its theme, starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/paintbrianmurphy.com\/gallery.php#\">Brian Murphy<\/a>&#8216;s self-portraits.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brianmurphymany.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/brianmurphymany.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"277\" \/><\/span>In a culture that fears fat the way ship captains<br \/>\nfear fatal storms, Murphy celebrates his bountiful flesh, turning his<br \/>\nface into a moon squashed against the picture plane and his torso into<br \/>\na sky, with drifts of himself floating by.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brianmurphyhead1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/brianmurphyhead1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"546\" \/><\/span>Within his theme, his range extends beyond the celebratory. He can render<br \/>\nversions of his body with the tender exactitude Kafka used to describe<br \/>\nGregor Samsa after his metamorphosis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/24th-street-2003-04-jenny-saville#\/images\/2\/\">Jenny<br \/>\nSaville<\/a> paints opalescent mounds of fleshy female (and pig) torsos,<br \/>\nsometimes but not always attached to fleshy heads. She works from photos; he works<br \/>\nfrom life.<br \/>\nTo paint himself, he peers into a small, hand-held mirror, memorizing<br \/>\nas much of the results as he can carry in his head, painting that and<br \/>\nrepeating the process.<br \/>\nSaville works with a grid. Murphy&#8217;s internal balances are far more<br \/>\nprecarious. Saville paints slabs of meat; Murphy paints pieces of sky.<br \/>\nHis flesh floats. It&#8217;s a massive volume with no weight, a pageant ready to melt into colored air.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of body featured in Unzipped, a sex mag for men. This is the body soon to be featured in a piece written by the peerless Dave White. Have devotees of the rock hard decided to lighten up on their fat phobia? It&#8217;s better than that. 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