Thornquestgallery - Art News

In February 2008, British artist Paul Morrison at one's desire offer an placement of vinyl block design in LVAM’s electric cable Gallery, with a video and piece of paintings and prints shown in the Polis Carver Gallery. The London-based artist is noted pro his distinctive, threatening and undefiled graphic-�lan compositions, which feature a pastiche of discrete, exceptionally stylized representational forms that take the role derived from disparate graphic genres. Drawing inspiration for the sake his motifs from sources that range from popular cartoons to botanical drawings to Albrecht Dürer woodcuts, and often maintaining incongruous scale, Morrison unifies his compositions with factitious spatial configurations that in spite of that intimate perspectival recession. Born in 1966 in Liverpool, Morrison received a B.F.A. from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1988, and an M.F.A. from Goldsmith’s College of , London, in 1998. His accommodate wheedle has been presented at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge; The Drawing Center, New York; ICA, London; MUHKA, Antwerp; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and other art institutions. He is represented by Allison Jacques, London.