Met with press a couple days ago; they put together this newspaper article. I can’t translate it all… basically it says “Want a hamburger? Get it from Buddha! Taiwanese temple guardians met American Beyonce. Derek Murphy is an American artist who paints East meets West, with cultural images and religious icons. This is really shocking and modern stuff! Murphy’s works are about protecting the environment, globalization and cultural identity…” Then it talks about the gallery and my biography. Damn good article. ———————–UPDATE————————– I’ve had the article translated. This is what it really says (scroll down for English): 彌勒佛拿漢堡 看見文化激盪 台灣寺廟的門神遇上美國R&B的歌手碧昂絲，會激起怎樣的火花？一手拿漢堡、一手持可樂的彌勒佛，又會呈現怎樣的形貌？來自美國的年輕畫家德瑞克默菲，融合東西文化，加上環保議題，創造出一幅幅震撼力十足的畫作，即日起在藝術天際畫廊展出，透過畫筆，和觀賞者分享由他的視覺觀維看到的世界。 …

I’ve been invited to the Taipei 2010 Revolution Art Fair. This is an enormous, international art fair set to coincide with Art Taipei 2010, an ever bigger art collection which draws the biggest names in the Asian and International art industry. It’s in the Taipei World Trade Center (Exhibition Hall 2) next to the 101 building. I’ve been allotted a significant bit of space and will show around 10 paintings. Come to see it if you’re in Taipei! Public Open Hours 開放一般民眾購票參觀時間如下： VIP Invitation Entrance Only 8/18 (三）18:00-21: 00; VIP Salon 21:00-00:00. Thursday 8/19 12:00~21:00 Friday, 8/20 12:00~21:00 Saturday, 8/21 …

“Skinny” 皮包骨 – 71x9cm – Oil on Canvas, 2010 A perfect “Hour Glass” figure – and yet it is obviously distorted and perverse. How thin is ‘too thin’? How much pressure, both internal and external, is put on women to lose weight in order to be considered beautiful? This painting highlights the self-consciousness of ‘bathing suit anxiety’. 一個完美的「沙漏」人物，可是身材卻明顯地歪曲且不合常理。瘦到什麼程度才叫做「太瘦」呢？為了看起來美麗，不知道有多少的內在和外在壓力讓女性開始減肥。這幅畫強調的是「泳衣焦慮」的自我意識。 Oil on Canvas Surrealism Oil Painting by Derek Murphy www.derekmurphyart.com

“Endangered Species” 瀕臨絕種物種- 117x91cm- Oil on Canvas, 2010 Asian mermaid in a lunchbox, paired with disposable chopsticks. This painting draws attention to the fact that we are literally eating ourselves out of our home, not only by exhausting the natural food supply, but also through our disposable eating habits, which create enormous excesses of waste and garbage. 午餐盒裡的亞洲美人魚，還配有一雙免洗筷。這幅畫讓我們注意到一件事，由於我們都在外用餐，不只逐漸耗盡天然食物，再加上用完即丟的飲食壞習慣，糟蹋了大量食物也產生大量垃圾。 Oil on Canvas Surrealism Oil Painting by Derek Murphy www.derekmurphyart.com

“Lamb Chop ” 血浴- 127x97cm- Oil on Canvas, 2010 A.k.a. “Criobolium” – a poor man’s taurobolium; involves the slaughter of a sacred animal, and the ritual bathing in its blood. The death of the animal was supposed to take away sins – it died in the place of a human in order to satiate the bloodthirsty gods. The blood of the animal was used to wash away remaining sins. These practices were common in the Roman empire; Criobolium in particular was used in the worship of Attis and the Great Mother. The ancient ritual continues, albeit in symbolic form, in …

Saturday, August 7th, from 3 to 6pm. Art-Skyline Gallery 藝術天際畫廊 www.art-skyline.com Opening Hours: PM 02:00 ~ PM 10:00 Tel: +886-6-2986089 Cell Phone: +886-932-209818 Cell Phone: +886-955-333007 E-mail: sky8999@gmail.com Address: 68 Jianping 3rd st., Tainan, Taiwan 台南市安平區建平三街68號1樓 “As a foreign artist working and living in Taiwan, my paintings offer a unique insight into themes of culture shock, language barriers, international communication, and globalization. More broadly, my previous exhibitions have used the absurd and the surreal to challenge untested assumptions and mental bridges, in the eternal artistic purpose of unveiling Truth and Meaning.” The current exhibition “Misfits” is a display of my …