John Morrell “Intersection: Grisaille Studies”

Atlantic Gallery

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John Morrell’s fifth exhibition in New York City brings together historic methods, materials and techniques with the contemporary concerns of nature in our urban/suburban environment. He focuses on perceptions of his surroundings.

Morrell’s chiaroscuro approach, grounded in master drawing tradition and under-painting technique, is at the intersection of Drawing and Painting. Intersection, a series of acrylic paintings on linen and panel investigate the juxtaposition of the natural and man-made in the artist’s urban and suburban environment. Evoking a sense of light, these chiaroscuro works use shades of grey to convey the illusion of space, form, and atmosphere.

Morrell’s landscapes explore parks and neighborhoods where nature takes hold against buildings and behind walls and fences in urban and suburban environments. These works highlight the intersection of nature and man-made environments and structures as well as the methods, materials and techniques that cross the boundary between drawing and painting. These grisaille studies read as drawings, using line and tone and, as paintings, use brush and canvas.

A native of Albany, New York, Morrell has painted and taught in the Washington, DC area for over thirty years. He teaches Painting at Georgetown University.

Morrell’s first solo exhibition showed landscape paintings done in Brittany, France in 1978. Eighteen other solo exhibitions followed, along with many group exhibitions, and numerous commissions for private and corporate collections. In 1980 the Smithsonian American Art Museum acquired Morrell’s mixed-media drawing Chateau IV. Curator Willem de Looper of the Phillips Collection awarded Morrell’s painting Reverie”Best in Show” at Athenaeum’s Fourteenth Annual Juried Show in 1984. The United States Postal Service selected Morrell’s depiction of Georgetown University’s Healy Hall for a postcard in their historic building series in 1989. Morrell has worked outside the DC area. In 1994 at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts he received a Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Fellowship. In 2004 at the Savannah College of Art and Design Morrell, as a Visiting Artist and guest lecturer, presented From The Ground Up, a solo exhibition of grisaille drawings. In 2005 Galerie Lee in Paris featured his urban landscapes in a solo exhibition. Since 2006 John Morrell participated in exhibitions at Atlantic Gallery and Sherry French Gallery both in New York, and Addison/Ripley Fine Art Gallery in Washington, DC.

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Schedule

from October 06, 2015 to October 31, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-10-08 from 17:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

John Morrell

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