Althea Murphy-Price

Murphy-Price's signature technique is the creating prints by using synthetic hair extensions as the lines in her work. Her technique is profiled in Beth Grabowski and Bill Fick's Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process. Murphy-Price uses both hair and hair accessories to create sculpture and installations, as well. Hair Rug No. 2 involved the artist dusting synthetic hair on the floor over lace overlay to create a striking rug-like pattern.

Murphy-Price has participated in solo and small-group exhibitions including: • "Supplemental Ornament," Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, 2008–2009. • "Salon Time: Sonya Clark + Althea Murphy-Price + Nontsikelelo Mutiti," at Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha • Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University • "Unreal Expectation," at E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center, Vanderbilt University • "Hair on Fire" at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at The College of Charleston • "Superficial Details: Althea Murphy Price" at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University She has been an artist-in-residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, and The Vermont Studio Center. Murphy-Price's works can be found in the collections of University of Akron, Gallery Collections in Akron, Ohio; Kohler Library, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin; Tyler School of Art Archives in Philadelphia, PA; Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center in Atlanta, GA, among others.