Aaron Morse
NADA Miami 2024 Art Fair
December 3-7, 2024
Booth B310
At NADA Miami 2024 Art Fair, Philip Martin Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Morse.
Aaron Morse’s work engages with human and environmental concerns, often with a view toward greater narratives about ourselves and the world in which we live. Morse's paintings invite us to consider myth, nature and culture. Their dynamic compositions combine elements in colorful and complex layers. Aaron Morse's synthesis of historical visual materials provides a window on both the past and the present. He notes, "I am drawn to the mutability and malleability of images, the way that an image or set of cliches might be altered and changed into another thing. I return to natural history sources again and again, as they present a core theme for me: survival and the persistence of life.”
In Aaron Morse's work, skies, forests and oceans burst with an array of animals and plants from a variety of ecosystems. The planet rotates on its axis, the sun rises and sets, humans live their lives. "I’m fascinated by the complexity in nature, and like to give my paintings a shorthand or analogous amount of detail." Morse's work points to the layered meanings of the present moment, the stories we tell ourselves, the heterogeneity of human experience, the nuance of geologic time and the natural world.
Aaron Morse (b. 1974, Tucson, AZ) received his BFA from the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) and his MFA from University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH). Aaron Morse's work was recently featured in The New York Times on the occasion of Morse's participation in, "If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change,” a major exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX). Aaron Morse's work has recently been featured in solo and group exhibitions at Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA); Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA); Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, TX); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS); Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (Logan, UT); Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC); Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery At Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY). Museum Collections include Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA); Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA); Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (Logan, UT); Rhode Island School of Design, (Providence, RI). Morse's work has been reviewed in such publications as Los Angeles Times, Time Out, Flaunt, Tema Celeste and Artweek. Aaron Morse lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
NADA Miami
December 3-7, 2024
Ice Palace Studios
Dates & Times:
VIP Preview (by Invitation):
Tuesday, December 3, 10am–4pm
Open to the Public:
Tuesday, December 3, 4–7pm
Wednesday, December 4, 11am–7pm
Thursday, December 5, 11am–7pm
Friday, December 6, 11am–7pm
Saturday, December 7, 11am–6pm
Location:
Ice Palace Studios
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
Philip Martin Gallery is open Wednesday-Saturday 11-5 and Tuesdays by appointment. The gallery is located at 3342 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles CA 90065. For additional images or information, please call 323-507-2037, or email info@philipmartingallery.com.
