MEG LIONEL MURPHY
Picasso famously said that women are either doormats or goddesses. My work plots the path from the doormat to the goddess.
I paint a faraway land called Manica Deprica, where violence transforms femme bodies into a monstrous size so that their pain must be seen, felt, and reckoned with. Unable to fit within the walls that once contained them, the giants leave home—moving through small towns, across storefronts, factories, churches, fields, and highways—searching for safety while trying to outpace an army of angry soldiers sent to destroy them.
DELIVER ME!
In Manica Deprica, the wounded body is not a source of shame. It is the beginning of a new religion built upon something very old. This approach informs my latest body of work within the show Deliver Me at the Law Gallery, this Fall of 2026, where I draw from early medieval Celtic Loricas—protective prayers that name every part of the body in careful succession. The prayer does not deny danger. Instead, it unabashedly declares vulnerability and demands attention no matter how unpopular and uncomfortable the wound may be. In experiencing domestic violence, we are often waiting for a bruise to become a ticket into belief. Like medieval wounds, the marks in my paintings are symbols of interior injuries that linger in the body, mood, and imagination long after visible evidence disappears.
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