Meighan Morrison Art

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Artist Statement: Over the last decade while our lives were becoming increasingly complex, digitized, and branded my paintings were becoming simpler, rawer and more intuitive. Shapes and colors dramatically distilled though contrast has remained a constant. I am interested in the clarity of opposites, how they meet and determine each other - black/white, rough/smooth, pain/joy. I work mainly on large un-stretched linen or paper laid on the floor which adds physicality and limits control. I enjoy how the accident unceremoniously reroutes any vision. There is relief in simplification, the large scale of my work strives to amplify the power of less and the basic nature of materials speak to the essential. Sometimes I paint as a temporary panacea for the exponential convolution that is our modern lives and times. Sometimes I paint as a small personal rebellion against it. On a good day I sometimes manage to do both. Meighan Morrison