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Eisy Murphy-Babcock, also known as Eisy.
pronounced eye-zee. Eisy (born September 23, 1976) is an American Outsider artist residing in Seattle, Washington. Born Eileen Katherine Murphy in Englewood, New Jersey on �September 23, 1976, she spent her childhood in Los Angeles, California where she attended the Lorne Street magnet arts school after being expelled from St. Catherine of Siena private school for misconduct. She developed a profound interest in art as a distraction from severe dyscalculia in her daily stiudies. The family spent most summers in New York, and she became mesmerized by the galleries and art museums she visited as a child, developing her signature style of bold, strong lines and feminine undertones. During high school, she attended the illustrious Scriber Lake Alternative school and was introduced to her mentor, the late artist Jerry Stansbury. Under his guidance, her daily class schedule was very noncomformist and included a strict regimen of painting, graphic art and sculpture. She attended college and was introduced to writer and poet, Holly Hughes, where she collaborated on the independent college literary magazine 'Between The Lines', an award-winning annual, and became a featured artist and journalist for 'The Review'. During this time, she began to have bouts of psychosis and was forced to withdraw early from academic life In 2001, her family flew to New York shortly after 9/11 to attend the funeral of her Uncle Raymond Murphy, a Lieutenant firefighter who perished when the second tower collapsed. It was during this time when she started having schizophrenic symptoms, but was unaware of the impending magnitude this disorder would bring later on. In 2002, while waiting to be seen for her psychiatric problems, her fiance of three years, Sam Zamarripa, had a massive heart attack and died in front of her. She spent six months thereafter, painting without cease, until finally succumbing to a complete mental breakdown. She spent Christmas in Fairfax Psyhiatric hospital, where she was comforted by daily art therapy, developing an obsession with collage.