Norma Morgan Enchanted World |
|
| Concept by:
| Academy Art Museum, |
| Compiled by:
| Academy Art Museum, |
| Created by:
| Academy Art Museum, |
| Curated by:
| Academy Art Museum,
Lelic, Mehves |
| Cover Design by:
| Academy Art Museum, |
| Introduction by:
| Lelic, Mehves |
| Author:
| Amaki, Amalia
Weyl, Christina |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7346076-2-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2021 |
| Publisher: | Academy Art Museum
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
|
drawings from Norma Morgan's prolific yet understudied career. On view from April 16 through August 1, 2021, the exhibition highlights Morgan's ability to convey a spiritual experience through her landscapes and portraits, and to transform formal observation to magical wonder. While her copper etchings are a testimony to her mastery as a printmaker, her mid-career paintings, which include experimental materials such as Day-Glo acrylic, shine a light on the artist's inquisitive mind and...
More Descriptiondrawings from Norma Morgan's prolific yet understudied career. On view from April 16 through August 1, 2021, the exhibition highlights Morgan's ability to convey a spiritual experience through her landscapes and portraits, and to transform formal observation to magical wonder. While her copper etchings are a testimony to her mastery as a printmaker, her mid-career paintings, which include experimental materials such as Day-Glo acrylic, shine a light on the artist's inquisitive mind and inventive inner world. Morgan's unique visual language invites the viewer to step back to take in the entirety of her layered compositions, as well as to look closer and notice their intricacies that range from complex monochromatic and color gradients to embracing figures hiding within the landscape. The selection in this exhibition is drawn from Morgan's wide variety of interests, from expansive and ambitious landscape etchings, to more intimate acrylics and watercolors depicting flora and fantasy. In Wild Doe Tor Farm, Devon, England, Morgan delivers an idyllic stone farmhouse surrounded by rural scenery, with a couple locked in an embrace in the lower right corner that is almost easy to miss. In the larger etching Moor Country (Dartmoor), the focus is on an imposing rock that Morgan has depicted in a delicate texture, with a faint shepherd and livestock at its feet. The catalogue features essays on Norma Morgan's life and work by Dr. Amalia Amaki and Dr. Christina Weyl. Norma Morgan: Enchanted World was produced with support from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Talbot County Arts Council with loans from the Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art, Donnell and Dorothea Walker Collection of African American Art, Dolan/Maxwell and Mr. Darryl K. Love.