“I paint giantesses,” artist Meg Lionel Murphy writes in her Instagram bio. Through candy-colored artworks, she highlights larger-than-life women who have lived through traumatic pasts that are healing from their past pains (by magically growing stronger and scarier than what’s around them). “It would be easy to disregard my work as girlish and unserious,” she writes. “But the paintings are deadly serious. The womxn I paint are fighting for their lives and minds.”
Meg has chosen to leave the specifics of the subjects’ trauma beyond the composition. “The horror lies in the suggestion of brutality left outside the frame,” she explains. But don’t let that dissuade you from viewing these pieces. “The concept may be rooted in violence, but the playful execution promises hope, autonomy, and healing.”
If you’re local to Minneapolis, you can view Meg’s work in her solo show called Interior Violence that runs from Saturday, February 8 to February 28 at CO exhibitions.
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