Keith Morrison exhibit: "Watercolors"
MOUNT VERNON – A selection of 30 large-scale watercolors by internationally known artist, educator, and critic Keith Morrison will be exhibited at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College Nov. 2 to Nov. 30.
An opening reception will be held Sunday, Nov. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Born in Jamaica and deeply inspired by its history, culture, rituals, and street life, Keith Morrison’s watercolors merge the motifs of landscape, still life, and genre scenes with the syncopated rhythms and hypnotic beauty of a tropical dream. His works deal with issues close to his heart, yet historically relevant across cultures.
Morrison has exhibited his work across the United States and abroad, and was selected to represent Jamaica at the 2001 Venice Biennale. His works are included in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Cincinnati Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Pennsylvania Academy, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Monterrey, Mexico, and numerous others.
Morrison’s work has been featured in many publications, including the Getty Museum’s Mortality / Immortality; Myth and Magic in the Americas: the Eighties, by the Museum of Modern Art, Monterrey, Mexico; Lucy Lippard’s Mixed Blessings; Regina Perry’s, Free within Ourselves; David Driscell’s Contemporary Visual Expressions; Samuella Lewis’ Caribbean Visions; and Richard Powell’s Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century.
He has lectured widely across the country, and has served as a professor or assistant professor of art at a number of universities and art institutes. He currently holds a rank of professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, where he serves as Dean of the college.
This exhibition and lecture are funded through the generosity of the Peter Paul Luce Foundation, Inc. For more information contact Sue Coleman at scoleman@cornellcollege.edu or (319) 895-4491.
