EXHIBITION ARTIST – Spring/Summer 2024
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray: My Memory is a Machine
Pronouns: (she/they)
Photo by Tara Geyer, Courtesy of ALMA | LEWIS.
“Through fabrics misshapen, draped, cut apart, sewn together, and blurred/masked/hidden imagery, I aim to visualize the complicated nature of memory, remembrance and re-telling an account of violence or harm. Feeling and memory connected to cloth/textiles and archival photographs are central themes in my work.”
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray (she/they) is a self-taught artist with roots in Florida and Asheville, NC. Through sewing, painting, material experimentation, film and collaborative projects, they create stories to investigate our relationships to the colonial undercurrents of our lives, the charged symbology of black feminine bodies, and the ephemeral and layered qualities of memory and remembering. Ambrose received their Bachelor’s from Yale University, and was recently selected as Forbes 30 under 30 in the 2024 Art section. Their work lives in the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Montclair Art Museum, and has exhibited across the US and abroad.
