Medrie MacPhee at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC

Through April 19, 2025

Tibor de Nagy Gallery is pleased to present Medrie MacPhee – The Repair, the gallery’s third exhibition with the artist. For the occasion, the art historian Nancy Princenthal wrote the following essay on MacPhee’s work.

Helpfully providing some coordinates for her recent paintings, Medrie MacPhee directed my attention to a few sculptors, including Phyllida Barlow. In particular, she cited the car trips Barlow remembered taking with her father through London just after World War II, when the domestic interiors of half-bombed buildings remained exposed. It made me think also of London-born Judy Pfaff’s similar experience of London after the blitz. Both women became poets of the fragmentary. MacPhee herself, in earlier collages and drawings, took architecture and demolition as primary references, depicting structures blasted open and flattened, both ravaged and ordered.

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Photo credit: Medrie MacPhee
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