The aromas of oils, paints and graphite will continue to fill the Holt-Russell Gallery until Oct. 28, as guest artist Molly Murphy comes to Baldwin City to share her art with the community.

“Molly considers Baldwin City to be home,” Campus Art Coordinator Traci Furan said. “(Molly) has a strong connection to this community. It’s exciting to have a living, working artist fill this space.”

Murphy was born in Colorado but grew up in Baldwin City.

“My parents still live north of town,” Murphy said. “The show is the first thing I’ve done in Baldwin since I moved away from home 15 years ago.”

The name of the exhibition is “Futures of Foregone Memory: Physical Space, work by Molly Murphy.”

But art isn’t just a hobby. Murphy recently opened an art studio in Kansas City.

“My parents have always supported me throughout my career, and it isn’t any different with this show,” Murphy said. “They have definitely helped out a lot within the last month.”

Brett Knappe, assistant professor of art history, said the art exhibition is a good way to get the Baker art department into the local art scene.

The Holt-Russell Gallery is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Murphy’s show has primarily two-dimensional objects, paintings and oil on canvas, drawings with graphite, mixed media pieces and a large installation.

The show is centered on imagining what the future will look like if we, the human race, keep leaving behind pieces of the past.

The oil paintings are layered and are scratched.

The paintings are scratched to resemble a person remembering his or her past.

Pulling together different elements for the mixed media pieces is a resemblance of pulling aspects the past to continue to the future.

“It uses some aspects of my life,” Murphy said.

Murphy’s advice to younger artists is that being an artist can be hard, but the key is to continue.

“The energy is pretty cool between artists,” Murphy said.

Murphy is looking forward to talking to students about their own personal artist style.

“This show can serve as a networking opportunity for studio art majors at Baker, if students take the opportunity to go to the show,” Knappe said.