Over Under | Maypole Drills
2024
Over Under | Maypole Drills is a video work documenting an art happening maypole-braiding work staged at the local concrete plant. Using the body and cooperative movement, Dunphy centers her sculpture as performative designed objects readying for the attainment of joy. The endurance of action, over under, becomes a shared memory.
Both her best girlfriends and professional dancers gathered in monochromatic colors to wrap the pole in the midst of a concrete plant at Dunphy’s studio.
Placing art and happening, vibrant color and wonderful women, in the bleak landscape of the industrial plant, is the stage for the braiding of the maypole.
Over Under, and as in other video work, Dunphy uses Hollywood film titles, particularly Saul Bass’s designs, as inspiration. Although so very far reimagined, Dunphy adapted elements from Bass’s Psycho and Man with a Golden Arm titling.
This video debuted at whitespace gallery in Atlanta, GA on September 21, 2024.
Wishful Thinking
2020-2021
The sign spinner tosses optimism in the air, spinning wildly seemingly out of control only to just barely catch it until it sails away again. As graceful as a dance, savvy as a street corner, the new video work expresses practice may make perfect.
Filmed in a community center gym, the new video work colorization and graphic sensibility is inspired by the art heist film in 1968 Thomas Crown Affair’s title sequence.
Playtime with Friends
2013 - Present
A selection of short digital videos all affixed to embroidered QR codes
Includes Glare, Rush, Wish, April, Pink Rain, Dirndl, Five of Hearts
Betsey a Day
1972-2012
Video, 2 minute loop. Videography by James Barsness and Lucy Barsness. Editing by Ted Kuhn.
Each day I will post and wear a different Betsey Johnson dress. You can wear a Betsey Johnson dress with me! Take a pick and black QR scan sticker. Stick it on your clothing. Scan the Sticker. Look at the Tumblr to see what new Betsey I am wearing.
Thank you Betsey for informing my personal style and growing with me in my own “over the top” attitude. You have and continue to give me so much fun! This performance work is an adoring tribute to you. I love you Betsey!
Playscape at the Contemporary
2009
Documentation of a full scale installation at the Contemporary in Atlanta including the Swing Room, Skate Room and Rock Room. Featured are the Playscape Monitors and visitors.
Skate School
2009
Trying out my skateboards with the guys before the new art school opened. The campus officials shortly after the run, and joined us for pizza in the hallway.
Carol’s Callouts
2008
Originally designed as a time-based projection piece for the dome of the Mark Smith Planetarium at the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences. Lucy and her friend Lauren are the hand-clappers and Carol is a friend and painter in Athens.
