Didi Dunphy received an MFA from SFAI in performance art. Selected exhibits and installations include, Playscape, Atlanta Contemporary, Let’s Fall in Love, Ivy Brown Gallery, NY, Push Play, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, A/D 2004, The Lab, San Francisco, AIM, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, Georgia Triennial, Telfair Museum, GA. Ms. Dunphy also exhibits design objects at the ICFF, NY and CaBoom West Coast Indy Design Show, Santa Monica. A number of features have been written about Ms. Dunphy including Athens Magazine, Craft, CMYK, Southern Living, as well as reviews in the LA Times, SF Chronicle, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and more.
I am interested in the intersection of art, performance and design – fabricating objects that facilitate an interactive cooperative play. My work explores the nature of Recess while challenging the tradition of arts institution by encouraging viewers to “play” with minimalist inspired conceptual works of sculpture. Thus, I have designed the “See Saw”, the “Swing” and the “Inside Skateboards”, sculpture that is designed for play, for interaction with the hopes that through this Recess or play activity, cooperation, collaboration and good ideas are born between people.
