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Artist Michael Morris to exhibit his recent massurrealist prints
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(5 November, Connecticut, USA) Recent works by artist Michael Morris exhibit called "Someday your prints will come." will have its opening reception on Monday night, November 5 between 7 and 10 pm at Pizzeria Lauretano, 291 Greenwood, Avenue, Bethel, CT. It's in the HUB Center next to Peoples Bank and Rite Aid Pharmacy the public is invited. Regular exhibit hours running through December 9th are Tuesday - Thursday 11:30 to 3 and 5 to 9:30, Friday 11:30 to 3 and 5 to 10, Saturday 4 to 10 and on Sunday 4 to 9:30pm. They are closed on Mondays. For information call 203.792.1500.
This is an all print show. There are 30 framed Gicleé prints derived from his large scale oil paintings and one new original painting, that pays homage to Leonardo DaVinci. Most of his paintings are six foot square and several are larger; whereas in this print show the sizes are only up to 38 inches in width for the largest one, making these more easily affordable than the original paintings. The content of the works centers on the 'elements', water (the sea), earth (Flowers), and air (clouds).
Mr Morris is one of the co-founders of massurrealism which is art rooted in the interplay between mass media, pop art, contemporary culture and Surrealist ideas of imagery. It can include many meanings: first is the concept of mass as in the mass media of television, advertising and the internet, etc. Second are the products of mass production as in radios, automobiles and jet aircraft, etc. Third are the images from mass culture, beer cans, beach balls, and swimming pools, etc. Encompassing even the inexplicable concepts like the masses of particle physics and energy, even to ideas of oneness. Combining visual icons from the outer world (what we call reality) and the inner (the surreal, the dream) which also involves mass in terms of the weight we feel and attribute to our emotions, thoughts and dreams.
Michael Morris is originally from Jersey City, NJ, now lives in Bethel, Connecticut. He is a painter, sculptor and graphic designer. A graduate of Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in Art Education and Yale University with a Bachelors and a Masters of Fine Art. His work has appeared in several group shows, a solo exhibit at Westport Art Center and last year at Pizzeria Lauretano he had a showing of his large paintings. He has won at Silvermine "Art of the Northeast" and "Contemporary Visions" at the university of Bridgeport.•
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