“Something about Michael David Murphy’s exhibition at Spruill Gallery strikes the viewer with the photographer’s disarming warmth, spontaneous intelligence, and his refusal to ever stop working.”

“One of the greatest gifts an artist can give is to help us see our world anew. Michael David Murphy, a keen-eyed photographer and equally able writer, combines his skills to do just that in his five-year retrospective at Spruill Gallery.”

“Taking on the guise of an everyman with a camera who appears anywhere and everywhere without explanation, Murphy approaches the commonplace as a field of random connections, or more strictly, random connections that seem ineluctable once made. Murphy is a conceptualist alternately chasing and being chased by his own observational acuity, an artist for whom clear-sightedness is enigmatic. He is deeply concerned with photography as a power to heed.”

“Tucked in the hallway leading from the main exhibit room to a back viewing room where Michael’s videos are playing (“Stoppage” is well worth the Dunwoody trip alone) are frames hung on the wall with no photograph inside. A line is drawn from each frame to a description of the photograph that was not taken. The unphotographable moment. Have I said “genius”? Many describe a scene with that has a striking social commentary, some describe a beautiful moment, and others are so hilarious I laughed out loud.”