Video: JP Morrison, Momentum Spotlight Artist
February 27, 2011 Leave a comment
Read more about the JP Morrison in this Art Focus Oklahoma magazine article or this past blog post.
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JP Morrison, Attempts-At-Seeing-Into-The-Future,Graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic on board, 2010, 14” x 12” |
Featuring young artists ages 30 and younger working in all media in Oklahoma, Momentum OKC opens March 4 & 5. Three artists were selected as Spotlight artists to develop in-depth projects, Sarah Engel, Alexandra Knox, and JP Morrison. The artists, who were chosen from proposals, each receive an honorarium of $1,750 and several months of interaction with the curators. This year’s curators are Clint Stone and Erinn Gavaghan.
JP Morrison, Bixby
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JP Morrison working in her studio |
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JP Morrison working in her studio |
August 7, 2009 1 Comment
A Beguiling Blink
By guest blogger Janice McCormickBlink and you would have missed J. P. Morrison’s one day show at Pearl gallery in Tulsa on July 29th. Consisting of seven works, J. P. explores the fantasy life of young women. Two particularly outstanding pieces, “Sphinx” and “Through the Looking Glass,” demonstrate her meticulous execution and magical vision.
May 11, 2012 Leave a comment
As a follow-up to this blog post, we thought our readers would enjoy a look at the completed install of Deedee Morrison’s new public artwork on the grounds of the Southwest Oklahoma City Public Library, 2201 SW 134th St.
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Deedee Morrison, A Matter of Fiction, Fairhope, Alabama |
Deedee Morrison, an artist based in Birmingham, AL, is installing a new piece of public art on the grounds of the Southwest Oklahoma City Library. Morrison will begin installation on May 10, 2012 with an official dedication ceremony to be announced.
The artwork, entitled Borrowed Light, is a kinetic light sculpture created as a metaphor for the many journey’s of enlightenment a reader can take within the pages of a book. The piece is made from 12 sheets of laser cut industrial grade aluminum, which is illuminated from within to achieve a radiant green color at night.
Morrison shared with us a bit about her career and working methods as a public artist. For more information, visit her website at www.deedeemorrisonsculpture.com.
When and how did you decide to make the leap to large-scale works?
I actually started my work as an artist as a public artist. I worked as an economist in London for several years out of college, and began taking art classes while I was there. I would travel to all of the outdoor sculpture parks that helped shaped my vision for public art and how it can inspire – given the right setting and scale for the artwork.
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Deedee Morrison, Sun Catcher, Clearwater, Florida |
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Deedee Morrison, Seed Pod, Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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Through the Looking Glass
Colored Pencil, Paper Collage and Colored Pencil, Acrylic
Q: What was your concept(s) behind your work(s)?
JM: Blue Beards Wife Eating a Pomegranate: Blue Beard, a mysterious man, takes his new bride far from everything she knows to live with him in his castle by the sea, their very own Garden of Eden. She knows that she is not his first wife, but the last in a line of seven women, all of whom have passed away. The husband provides his new wife with everything she can imagine, and they enjoy a brief honeymoon period. Before he departs on a business trip, Blue Beard gives his wife a ring of keys that unlock every door in the castle. She may do with the keys as she likes, save one. He tells her, “For that is the key to my own private study, from which I forbid you to enter.” Of course, the girl’s curiosity gets the better of her. She enters the study and finds it to be full of the bodies of all his previous wives. Worse, the offending key has become marked from its forbidden entry into the lock and the curious girl’s fate is sealed. Upon her husband’s return, he will learn of her disobedience, and she will join his other naughty wives in The Bloody Chamber.
The girl in this fairytale reminds me so much of another woman who indulged her curiosity at great cost: Eve. The key and the fruit of knowledge both serve as the same tool. However, at the end of The Tale of Blue Beard the girl is rescued and Blue Beard is the one who meets a gruesome end. The morals of this fairytale become blurred. Curiosity wins the day and order, rules and oppression are flouted. Here we see Blue Beard‘s Wife reveling in all her carnal knowledge.
The Sibyl Admiring Her Saturday Reflection: The powerful Sibyl is the writer of prophecy, a mother of fables and the keeper and protector of grimoires (spell books). Many luminous tales about the Sibyl tell of her epic adventures. After the fall of paganism she withdrew to a cave at the top of Monte Sibillini to live secretly in everlasting paradise, her stories still told in hushed voices.
In 1420, the author, Antoine de la Sale, tells of a German knight’s quest to the Sibyl. The knight discovers her at last in her grotto of earthly delight. The beautiful ageless people living there speak easily to each other in every language, sharing all thoughts. In nine days any newcomer converses with equal aplomb in this land of constantly blooming flowers and bountiful feasts.
However, the brave knight wonders why his Sibyl shuts herself away from him each Saturday. He spies upon her and discovers that on this day his lover turns into a great monster and all her maids to serpents. She is just an illusion, a trick of the devil, and he realizes he must set himself free. On the 330th day, (the final day upon which all escape is impossible) he makes his getaway. In Rome, the knight seeks forgiveness for his season in hell, but the Pope refuses him absolution. So the knight chooses to return to his beautiful Sibyl and live in bliss forever more – except on Saturdays.
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Tahlia Roper, Escape, digital photography, 30×24, 2012 |
Tahlia Roper kind of defies classification as an artist. She’s a photographer (and new to it), a watercolor artist, and a videographer. She infuses satire and comedy into her work, especially her videos. On the Tulsa Art Studio Tour, be sure to ask her about “Smoothieland,” a video tribute to her day job, or her “Comment Box” installation piece.
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Tulsa Art Studio Tour featured artist Tahlia Roper |
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Alexandra Knox, test garlic pouches, organza & garlic skins |
Featuring young artists ages 30 and younger working in all media in Oklahoma, Momentum OKC opens March 4 & 5. Three artists were selected as Spotlight artists to develop in-depth projects, Sarah Engel, Alexandra Knox, and JP Morrison. The artists, who were chosen from proposals, each receive an honorarium of $1,750 and several months of interaction with the curators. This year’s curators are Clint Stone and Erinn Gavaghan.
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Alexandra Knox working in her studio |
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Alexandra Knox, There Will Always Be Five, Iron, Aluminum, Muslin, Copper, 36x18x5″ 2008 |