Meighan Morrison

Untitled #12417B

2018

While our lives became increasingly complex, digitized, and branded my paintings became simpler, rawer and further abstracted. Shapes and colors dramatically distilled though contrast remains 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 while the basic nature of the materials speak to the essential. Sometimes I paint as a temporary panacea for the exponential convolution that is our modern lives and times. And sometimes I paint as a small personal rebellion against it. On a good day I manage to do both.