Alex Gene Morrison
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Same As It Ever Was
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EXHIBITION DATES
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Friday June 27th – Saturday July 26th
2014
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GALLERY HOURS
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Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm or by appointment
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This new collection of paintings signifies a
culmination of ideas that Morrison has been exploring for over ten years. There
is a distinctively anthropological feeling to his images of skulls, forests,
monsters and totemic abstract forms that call to mind the primitive and
tribal. Signifiers of fire and raw electrical energy convey thoughts of
destruction, transformation and re-animation via elemental forces. Morrison
reminds us that there are embedded, archetypal elements within us that
abridge modern and primeval man. Simultaneously, ongoing obsessions with horror
and sci-fi movies; video games; sub cultural design; alternative music and
the oppressive, unrelenting rhythms of Doom Metal all seep into and out of
the work.
This sense of deep time, which is intrinsic to the
work, is coupled with a knowing enquiry into Modern abstract painting, where
Morrison references formalist tropes that were defined by 20th
century avant-garde movements including Suprematism, Vorticism, Abstract
Expressionism and Neo-Geo. Inherent within all of these was a departure from
representation and gravitation towards a search for purity of expression and
the universal via abstraction. Morrison intelligently absorbs these
ideological and painterly languages, and in doing so, creates a unique and alternative
visual language that invites his audience to go behind the surface through
fractures, splits and tears. Rendered in dark, textured paint and in
combination with his use of archetypal simulacra, Morrison presents us with
resonant, metaphysical paintings.
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BIOGRAPHICAL
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BORN
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1975
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EDUCATION
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2000 – 2002: MA in Painting, Royal
College of Art; 1997 – 2000: BA (Hons) in Fine Art, City and Guilds of London
Art School
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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Selected Exhibitions: 2013: Saatchi
Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT, B1, Victoria House, London; 2012:
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal
Academy of Arts, London; Ha Ha what does this represent, Standpoint Gallery,
London; 2011: Video in Britain Today, Bermondsey Project Space, London;
Polemically Small, Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipeda; THE
FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance; 2010:
Fade Away, Transition Gallery, London; Dark Matter (one person), CHARLIE
SMITH LONDON, London; The Term “Reality”, Paul Stolper, London; New British
Painting, Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki; 2008: John Moores Contemporary Painting
Prize 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; 2007: Adrift (one person), The
Fishmarket, Northampton; Nature and Society, Dubrovnik
Museums, Croatia; 2006: Vile
Lure (one person), Rockwell Gallery, London; Artists Choice, Leisure Club
Mogadishni, Copenhagen; 2005: Maji
Jabii!! Fucking Brilliant!!, Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo; Hydrophobia, Zinger
Presents, Tilburg; New London Kicks, Wooster Projects, New York; Faux
Realism, Royal Academy Pump House Gallery, London; The Darkest Hour, Leisure
Club Mogadishni, Copenhagen; 2004:
Search and Destroy (one person), Rosy Wild Gallery, London; If You Go Down to
the Woods Today, Rockwell Gallery, London; Uneven Surfaces,
temporarycontemporary, London; Zombie, Gallery Ude, Düsseldorf; Born Cry Eat
Shit Fuck Die, Rockwell Gallery, London; 2001: Modern Love, Hobbypop Museum,
Düsseldorf; Modern Love, VTO Gallery, London; Rockwell, Rockwell Gallery, London
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COLLECTIONS
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David Roberts, London
Private collections in France, Germany,
United Kingdom & United States
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336 Old Street,
London EC1V 9DR , United Kingdom | +44 (0)20 7739 4055 | www.charliesmithlondon.com
Wednesday–Saturday
11am–6pm or by appointment
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