Good Funky Miles at Fleisher Ollman Gallery - Featuring Dan Murphy
May 31-July31st
Fleisher Ollman Gallery
1616 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA, 19107
www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com
Good Funky Miles is a group show explicitly designed to sustain and embolden bored, wilting spirits through the grittiest hours of high summer in a city. It brings together the work of four men who do not know each other.
Dan Murphy is the co-founder of Megawords, an internationally lauded crucible for global eye-opening and community-building in print, audio and video, and will contribute a video compilation and installation of urban typologies, a young life's work manifest in 4x6 drugstore prints. This is a first for a man whose bread and butter has until now been 'zines and what we'll loosely call street work.
Good funky miles are the ones that belong to you. Go on and embrace the global village-it's rickety, it's good, it's an utterly romantic position-but remember there's no way, none, to replace the route you built in your city, that line through the pigs, and the cranes, and the things everyone can afford, and the things no one should buy, and the alcoholics, and the animal-rights activists, and the monuments, and the golden, and the zealots, and the thick, and the over-refined, and the walking dead, and the never born, and the ruins, and the lovers, and the radio, and the robbers, and the evenings, and the sun. It gets funkier every day. How did you plot that line, man?
