Underwater Ocean Seascape Floral with Octopus by Seren Morey - Zozimos

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Seren Morey
Underwater Ocean Seascape Floral with Octopus by Seren Morey - Zozimos
2017

About the Item

Seren Morey’s paintings are highly sculptural, with thick icing-like layers of paint specially created using a unique combination of mediums, dispersions and found objects to create artworks that are simultaneously representational and abstract. Her work immediately catches the eye and is bound to be a conversation starter. Ranging from quirky and fun to fantastical, gothic and floral, there is an element in her work for every aesthetic. This piece was titled after Zosimos of Panopolis, a Greco-Egyptian alchemist and Gnostic mystic from the late 3rd/early 4th century. It is meant to be a lush otherworldly environment speaking to my interest in nature as a magical force and gateway to a larger understanding of existence. Ultralight Acrylic and Dispersions on Panel, 2017 19.5x16x4”, 6lb Artist's Statement: My work represents unseen currents of energy and movement lying beneath the surface of our general perception, both microscopic and macroscopic in origin. Making this work is an effort to trace a path back to some unknown past or lost memories hidden deep in the subconscious. Most recently, the paintings have gone beyond references of biological/botanical morphology and evolved into paint creatures that are playful with a menacing edge, and might yet be found in some undiscovered fairytale world. I like the idea of creating “living” artifacts dug up from a distant place in the mind. The primary medium I work in is Ultralight paint base. I thicken and color the paint base with pigment dispersions, and stretch and pull it like taffy or extrude it through a pastry bag with varying tips to make paint that simultaneously embodies sinew, tendril, petal and claw. I sometimes add additional details into the skin of this paint. In some instances a water based Urethane is used to create reflective pools that are suggestive of windows to an internal space. Puddles of glass beads also serve as a reflective element that may function simultaneously as eggs or geological formations. Finally, the acrylic itself is sometimes sewed and functions as a webbing, embedding forms and tying them together. The sewing of the cut canvas and the actual paint itself are connected to the stitching and healing of past wounds. The imagery is organic and visceral, with suggestions of nerve, bone and vein; flower, vine and thorn; fossils of the past and cells of the future, morphing from one into another. Ideas about the cyclical nature of life and death that represent themselves in themes of decay and rebirth are frequently present. Ideally, I would like to make work that breathes, that is fragile and yet potentially ominous and jubilant, embracing all of the pain and beauty that is life. About the Artist: Seren Morey is a New York City based artist who makes sculptural paintings through extrusion, informed by quantum mechanics and fairy tales. Her biological/botanical hybrids reference the all -encompassing universality of particle energy. Morey’s work has been shown recently with Rick Wester Fine Art, The Royal Society of American Art, De Buck Gallery in NYC and France, LA Art Show, David & Schweitzer Contemporary NYC, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery NYC, Field Projects Gallery NYC and Anthony Philip Fine Art NYC. Her work has been acquired by multiple private and public collections including Angela Missoni, Middlebury College Museum of Art and Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. She has been reviewed by Robin Pogrebin, Barry Schwabsky and Helen A. Harrison of the New York Times. Morey received a BA from Bard College, NY and an MFA from Pratt Institute, NYC. She is a partner in Guerra Paint & Pigment Corp., a specialty resource store for artists. Signed on the back Ready to hang Cleaning: light dusting is recommended or compressed air for deep cleaning

Creator:
Seren Morey (American)
Creation Year:
2017
Dimensions:
Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic,Wood Panel
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU159128379902