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FINAL DAY!!! SAT, MAY 16, 12–6 PM!

LAST CHANCE to see MARK MILROY’S solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, “Jumbo,” currently on view. The show closes SATURDAY, MAY 16. Gallery hours: 12–6 pm. Artist plans to be there in the afternoon.

JJ MURPHY GALLERY is located at 53 Stanton Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, one block south of Houston Street. Artist plans to be there from 3–6 pm.

Pictured:

Still Life with Poodle and Portraits
2026
oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches

@mark_milroy #trompeloeil #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartist #nycartist

MARK MILROY FINAL 3 DAYS!!!

LAST CHANCE to see “Jumbo,” Mark Milroy’s solo exhibition of paintings and drawings.

JJ MURPHY GALLERY is located at 53 Stanton Street on the Lower East Side, one block south of Houston Street. Open: THURS – SAT, 12 – 6 PM.

“[Mark] Milroy, who teaches art to middle schoolers, has drawn inspiration from a wide range of sources. Over the brief period that he has been exhibiting his work, it has become denser with narrative possibilities. The interplay between his colored pencil drawings and paintings and the directness of his marks is notable at a time when faux awkwardness mixed with irony has become commonplace. Milroy’s unabashedly direct paintings and drawings put him in the same company as another great, quirky, American original, Albert York, whose works the poet and critic Bruce Hainley once described as the “pursuit of lyric intensity while negotiating a point-blank confrontation with history.” We see this confrontation in Milroy’s work mixed with painful childhood memories, yearning, and love.” — John Yau, Hyperallergic

Pictured:

Tiger Stripes
2025
oil on canvas
16 x 12 inches

@mark_milroy #portraitart #portraitartist #contemporarypainting #nycartist

Still Life with Skull and Flower,
10x8” oil on canvas

JUMBO on view @jjmurphygallery
Through May 16th
Gallery hours, Thursday-Saturday 12-6
53 Stanton Street
For inquiries please contact JJ @jjmurphygallery
#portrait #skull #mementomori #narrative #stilllife

Heading into the final week of the show!!!

Girl with Flower, 12 x 12” o/c
JUMBO on view @jjmurphygallery
Through May 16th
Gallery hours, Thursday-Saturday 12-6
53 Stanton Street
For inquiries please contact JJ @jjmurphygallery
#flowers #hands #narrative

February Gold, 10 x 8” o/c
JUMBO on view @jjmurphygallery
Through May 16th
Gallery hours, Thursday-Saturday 12-6
53 Stanton Street
For inquiries please contact JJ
@jjmurphygallery

#portrait #daffodil #narrative

Paris Green, 10 x 8” o/c 2026

For inquiries please contact JJ @jjmurphygallery

JUMBO on view through 5/16
The gallery is open Thursday - Saturday 12- 6pm - 53 Stanton Street

#stilllife #flowers #narrative #jumbo

Leo & Swallow, 16 x 12” o/c
JUMBO on view @jjmurphygallery
Through May 16th
Gallery hours, Thursday-Saturday 12-5
53 Stanton Street
For inquiries please contact JJ @jjmurphygallery

#Leo #swaĺlow #portrait #lesgalleries

Leo & Swallow, 16 x 12” o/c
JUMBO on view @jjmurphygallery
Through May 16th
Gallery hours, Thursday-Saturday 12-5
53 Stanton Street
For inquiries please contact JJ @jjmurphygallery

#Leo #swaĺlow #portrait #lesgalleries

Leo & Swallow, 16 x 12” o/c
JUMBO on view @jjmurphygallery
Through May 16th
Gallery hours, Thursday-Saturday 12-5
53 Stanton Street
For inquiries please contact JJ @jjmurphygallery

#Leo #swaĺlow #portrait #lesgalleries

We will be discussing JUMBO today @jjmurphygallery @ 4pm with JJ @dagcentral & Nancy @namladen !

53 Stanton Street

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Whispering, 10 x 8 inches, o/c

#Q&A #artisttalk #narrative #painting

Picture Making by Children, 12 x 9” o/c

I will be having a chit chat about my work and the show JUMBO tomorrow
SaturdayMay 2nd - 4pm @jjmurphygallery 53 Stanton St.

Hope you can make it!

Show runs through May 16 gallery hours Thursday- Saturday 12-5pm

#jumbo #stilllife #narrative #artisttalk

GALLERY OPEN THURS–SAT! ARTIST TALK SAT 4 PM!

Mark Milroy’s solo exhibition of recent paintings and drawings, “Jumbo,” currently on view Thurs – Sat, 12–6 pm.

There will be an ARTIST TALK on SAT, MAY 2 at 4 PM.

“Knowing his work as intimately as I do, I did not realize that Jumbo, at JJ Murphy through May 16, was his debut New York exhibition. It includes 18 paintings ranging between 10 by 8 inches (~25.4 x ~20.3 cm) and 60 by 75 inches (~1.5 x 1.9 m), and 12 colored pencil drawings measuring 12 by 9 inches (~30.5 x 22.9 cm) in a binder on the gallery desk. While the predominant subjects are still lifes and portraits, what Milroy does with these time-worn subjects, especially on a larger scale, is what makes this exhibition special. In a 2013 essay that the poet Douglas Crase wrote about Milroy, he pointed out Cedric Morris, the erudite, self-taught painter and Lucian Freud’s teacher, as an influence. Another of Milroy’s inspirations is the compressed non-perspectival space and warm humanism of 15th-century Florentine painting.”

—John Yau, Hyperallergic

Pictured:

North Star
2026
oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches

@mark_milroy #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartist #nycart #nycartist

Very grateful to John Yau for his insightful review of Mark Milroy’s solo exhibition “Jumbo” in Hyperallergic. See below. Link to full review in bio:

“Knowing his work as intimately as I do, I did not realize that “Jumbo,” at JJ Murphy through May 16, was his debut New York exhibition. It includes 18 paintings ranging between 10 by 8 inches (~25.4 x ~20.3 cm) and 60 by 75 inches (~1.5 x 1.9 m), and 12 colored pencil drawings measuring 12 by 9 inches (~30.5 x 22.9 cm) in a binder on the gallery desk. While the predominant subjects are still lifes and portraits, what Milroy does with these time-worn subjects, especially on a larger scale, is what makes this exhibition special. In a 2013 essay that the poet Douglas Crase wrote about Milroy, he pointed out Cedric Morris, the erudite, self-taught painter and Lucian Freud’s teacher, as an influence. Another of Milroy’s inspirations is the compressed non-perspectival space and warm humanism of 15th-century Florentine painting. . . .

Milroy, who teaches art to middle schoolers, has drawn inspiration from a wide range of sources. Over the brief period that he has been exhibiting his work, it has become denser with narrative possibilities. The interplay between his colored pencil drawings and paintings and the directness of his marks is notable at a time when faux awkwardness mixed with irony has become commonplace. Milroy’s unabashedly direct paintings and drawings put him in the same company as another great, quirky, American original, Albert York, whose works the poet and critic Bruce Hainley once described as the “pursuit of lyric intensity while negotiating a point-blank confrontation with history.” We see this confrontation in Milroy’s work mixed with painful childhood memories, yearning, and love.”

Gallery hours: Thurs–Sat, 12–6 PM.

Pictured:

Still Life with Poodle and Portraits
2026
oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches

@mark_milroy #hyperallergic #johnyau #contemporarypainting #jjmurphygallery

Very grateful to John Yau for his insightful review of Mark Milroy’s solo exhibition “Jumbo” in Hyperallergic. See below. Link to full review in bio:

“Knowing his work as intimately as I do, I did not realize that “Jumbo,” at JJ Murphy through May 16, was his debut New York exhibition. It includes 18 paintings ranging between 10 by 8 inches (~25.4 x ~20.3 cm) and 60 by 75 inches (~1.5 x 1.9 m), and 12 colored pencil drawings measuring 12 by 9 inches (~30.5 x 22.9 cm) in a binder on the gallery desk. While the predominant subjects are still lifes and portraits, what Milroy does with these time-worn subjects, especially on a larger scale, is what makes this exhibition special. In a 2013 essay that the poet Douglas Crase wrote about Milroy, he pointed out Cedric Morris, the erudite, self-taught painter and Lucian Freud’s teacher, as an influence. Another of Milroy’s inspirations is the compressed non-perspectival space and warm humanism of 15th-century Florentine painting. . . .

Milroy, who teaches art to middle schoolers, has drawn inspiration from a wide range of sources. Over the brief period that he has been exhibiting his work, it has become denser with narrative possibilities. The interplay between his colored pencil drawings and paintings and the directness of his marks is notable at a time when faux awkwardness mixed with irony has become commonplace. Milroy’s unabashedly direct paintings and drawings put him in the same company as another great, quirky, American original, Albert York, whose works the poet and critic Bruce Hainley once described as the “pursuit of lyric intensity while negotiating a point-blank confrontation with history.” We see this confrontation in Milroy’s work mixed with painful childhood memories, yearning, and love.”

Gallery hours: Thurs–Sat, 12–6 PM.

Pictured:

Still Life with Poodle and Portraits
2026
oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches

@mark_milroy #hyperallergic #johnyau #contemporarypainting #jjmurphygallery

@jjmurphygallery
MARK MILROY
OPEN THURS–SAT, 12–6 PM!

Be sure to stop by the gallery to see “Jumbo,” Mark Milroy’s new solo exhibition of paintings and drawings.

JJ MURPHY GALLERY is located at 53 Stanton Street on the Lower East Side, one block south of Houston Street. Open: THURS – SAT, 12 – 6 PM.

“At the opening last night for “Jumbo” by Mark Milroy. One of those shows that stays with you long after you leave. Mark has a rare way of painting. Portraiture, still life, memory, humor, and unease all live in the same frame. What stands out most is how personal the work feels. Each painting seems to carry its own memory, tension, and internal logic. Nothing feels obvious, yet everything holds together. This show feels deeply personal. Every work carries the weight of memory, obsession, and something unresolved. “Jumbo” at JJ Murphy Gallery is a must see. Sharp, strange, and unexpectedly moving. One of those shows that stays with you after you leave. On view through May 16. Don’t miss it.” — Carol Real, Art Summit

Pictured:

The Gardener in Profile
2025
oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches

@mark_milroy @art.summit #contemporarypainting #nycart #nycgallery