The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see.

This is the first thought I have when I see Double Bed, a recent painting by the artist Catherine Murphy, during a December visit to Peter Freeman’s Tribeca gallery to preview work for her ...

Catherine Murphy (b. 1946) considers herself an “observational painter,” not the photorealist that many of her works might suggest, nor the surrealist that other of her paintings might bring to mind.