Luke Murphy

@friezeofficial @friezenewyork @canada.nyc Plinth, 2026 Informal lines and voids on formal screens in the shape of a plinth. Non repeating slowly changing W #donanelson

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Beamsplitter an exhibition curated by David Shaw at Field of Play 56 2nd Ave. #21, Brooklyn, NY . open Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm or by appointment . Featuring: . Luke Murphy/Michael Ballou Fire Ring and Geech Chair, 2025 LED Matrix panels, aluminum wire, and steel armature, display hardware, power supplies, mini-PC, software, code, power bars and recovered plastic lawn chair, enamel paint 60 x 40 in x variable depth . Luke Murphy and Michael Ballou have teamed up to create “Fire Ring and Geech Chair.” Murphy codes open ended systems whose patterns never repeat onto LED panels. In “Fire Ring and Geech Chair” a digital ovoid fire forms a vortex into an infinity hole, the mechanics of which are under the discarded furniture Ballou repairs “like a tinkering angel.” Together they create the seat from which one views the void it creates. The collaboration becomes a self reflexive meditation site, an event horizon viewing itself.—DS . . @inuverse @fieldofplaygallery @lukemurphy49 @michael.ballou

How do you represent an on or an off. When is a line a thought.

Big Jammer, 2025 @canada.nyc @artbasel @baselmiami 71x91, LED Matrix panels, aluminum and wood frame, aluminum wire armature, display hardware, power supplies, mini-PC, software, code Non-repeating repeating patterns Photo and title thanks to @joeedenardo

OPENING TOMORROW November 12th, 6-8pm Field of Play presents “Beamsplitter,” a group exhibition curated by David Shaw. The title references an optical device used to analyze the fundamental nature of light by dividing it into separate beams. While this tool is critical to our understanding of quantum mechanics, light continues to evade a clear definition. Similarly, our sentience defies a location: try as we might, we have yet to discover the seat of consciousness in the brain or elsewhere. The six artists included in Beamsplitter challenge the surety of our consciousness through an examination of duality, introspection, and the nature of light, both inner and outer. Kalina Winters Gavin Wilson Lauren Hussey Luke Murphy Mike Ballou Scott Grodesky @inuverse @fieldofplaygallery @kalinawinters_da_chumba @takepicture @laurenanais @lukemurphy49 @michael.ballou #scottgrodesky

“Beamsplitter” curated by David Shaw opens November 12th 6-8pm at Field of Play 56 2nd Avenue #21, Brooklyn, NY Beamsplitter features six incredible artists that challenge the surety of our consciousness through an examination of duality, perception, and the nature of light, both inner and outer. Kalina Winters Gavin Wilson Lauren Hussey Luke Murphy Mike Ballou Scott Grodesky @inuverse @fieldofplaygallery @kalinawinters_da_chumba @takepicture @laurenanais @lukemurphy49 @michael.ballou #scottgrodesky

New work in progress - code-base of drawing, paintings, patterns, and heuristics - modeled on many painters and systems from PostIt Notes to Barnett Newman. Non repeating, non looping - more like resampled fugues. Pattern fountains on informal screen surfaces.

OBearX 2.1 @frieze.seoul with @canada.nyc #contemporary_art #digitalart #ledlights

RISD CTC Artist Talk: Luke Murphy April 9, 2025, 6:00pm 20 Washington Place, Room 143 Luke Murphy @lukemurphy49 is a New York–based artist whose path has bridged both creative and technical worlds. Originally trained as a painter, he spent years working separately as a developer and web engineer, but his practices ultimately converged. Today, he explores the intersections of humanity, technology, and nature through digital and electronic media, combining code, algorithms, found objects, and imagery. Murphy is best known for his LED matrix screen-sculptures—modular displays originally designed for advertising and information, which he codes, disassembles, and reconfigures into animated sculptural forms. These works expose the hidden systems, labor, and imperfections behind seemingly seamless digital surfaces, offering meditations on collapse, emergence, and the sublime in everyday technology. By breaking apart and reassembling these screens, Murphy evokes collapse and reemergence, drawing attention to the physicality and fragility embedded in the digital. His work has been exhibited across North America, including at SMoCA, Shane Campbell Gallery, CANADA, and Postmasters, among others. He received his BS from the University of Toronto in 1985; BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art And Design in 1988; and MFA from State University of New York at Purchase in 1991. — Slide 2: Drawing, 2024 Slide 3: Monument To the Glitch 2023 Slide 4: Widening Gyres, 2022 — Graphic design by Annabel Gillespie @http.annabelcore RISD GD MFA 2027

Studio work 2025. Draped, propped, collapsed, gradual and quick. Thanks to @michael.ballou for reconstructioned viewer chair in front of large slumping drawing. Some code revised with help of Sourcery AI which was a new experience a bit like taking a Waymo self driving cab a couple weeks ago in SF...except that when I first let it loose on my stack it made it all pretty but broke all the animation 😞 . Sometimes the software design pattern "big ball of mud" and "shantytown" is better for art. Mostly my code is like "Hobo Patch" though. If you are in NYC downtown, I have a couple pieces in a show @canada.nyc curated by @ine_kimba and @msgrauer