October 7 - 23, 2005
reception with the artist : Friday, October 7th 6-9 pm

"Paint what you know while pushing your painting in a direction that you don't know." Written in a recent sketchbook it alludes to the spirit of experimentation which informs my new work. Photographs, movies, and direct observation are the source materials I use as jumping off points for these paintings, all of which share an underlying landscape structure. I am drawn to the atmospheric and spatial qualities of landscape and to its abstract possibilities.

This 40 year old painter has been honing his craft since his arrival here in 1991. Initially steeped in realist tradition of the art students league, Morgan has since shed its more academic influences for a building interest in abstraction. These two forces have recently collided onto surfaces exploding with movement and subtlety. This show is a result of that collision.