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① Artwork:
Nightclub
This painting depicts a sea of multiple faceless figures interacting with a nightclub door. As with all the paintings in this series, the artist positions viewers as onlookers outside this scene of working and commuting figures performing daily tasks in a sleeper city.
In his acrylic paintings, the artist depicts simplified scenarios of observed and imagined social dynamics. These suspenseful stories feature ordinary subjects with much of their physical information removed, allowing the slightest gesture to hold weight. Morrison repeatedly edits a painting to build nuances, striking a delicate balance between information and imagination. He dramatizes scale and distance for effect and subdues his colors to establish a dreamlike, hazy atmosphere.
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③ Artist:
In these acrylic paintings, the artist depicts simplified scenarios of observed and imagined social dynamics. These suspenseful stories involve archetypal representations of contemporary working or commuting figures with ambiguous intentions. These ordinary subjects have much of their information removed, allowing the slightest gesture to hold weight and helping to deepen these existential moments. Morrison repeatedly edits a painting to build nuances, striking a delicate balance between information and imagination. He dramatizes scale and distance for effect and subdues his colors to establish a dreamlike, hazy atmosphere. The result is an act of meditation, where intimate and private resistance can cultivate a critical reading and perception of the world.
Luke Morrison was born in 1995 in Boston, MA, and lives in Providence, RI. He holds an MFA in Painting from Boston University in Boston, MA (2023) and a BA in Drama from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY (2018).
Morrison has mounted solo exhibitions at Swivel Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2024) and Dryden Gallery in Providence, RI (2021).
His work has been featured in group shows at Pulp in Holyoke, MA (2024), Hexum Gallery in Montpelier, VT (2024), Good Naked Gallery in New York, NY (2023), Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, NY (2023), Quappi Projects in Louisville, KY (2022), Ortega Y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY (2022), and elsewhere.
His work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine (2021).
