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Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Heliotrope, an exhibition of new works by Colorado sculptor Pard Morrison, on Saturday, July 7, 2018, from 4-6pm, with an artist talk at 4:30pm. On view will be three monumental freestanding sculptures, multi-colored paintings, and a selection of small sculptural works in patinated aluminum. In Heliotrope, Morrison’s reductive sculptural forms have expanded to include increasingly complex patterns rendered in dynamic color arrangements, creating works with optically charged resonance. The exhibition will be on view through August 25, 2018.
Using the minimalist tradition as a foundation, Pard Morrison’s newest works explore the visual interplay of color, patterning, and form. In this body of work, Morrison has covered the surfaces of his aluminum forms with horizontal, zigzag, or syncopated diagonal lines using an enameling process he calls patination. Unlike previous works, where Morrison employed broad areas of color across irregular shapes, in the new works his surfaces display patterns of narrow, painterly lines in increasingly vibrant color combinations. For Morrison, this shift in color and patterning is meant to capture a psychological movement towards the light – the meaning of heliotrope.
Morrison’s large-scale, freestanding sculpture Heliotrope measures an impressive eight feet tall and makes for a profound visual encounter. Covered on all sides with repeatedly bent, vertical lines in bright colors, Morrison’s patterning creates a structural tension in relation to the rectangular form. In his paintings, Morrison’s explorations into patterning take flight with zigzagging stripes and staggered lines of pulsating rhythmic tonalities. Also introduced in the exhibition are small totemic sculptures resting on wall-mounted shelves, each displaying a unique visual vocabulary. Through his work Morrison aims to represent both the natural and the artificial, the minimal and the complex, while blurring the line between complex fabrication and traditional painting.
Pard Morrison was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado and received his BFA in sculpture from Colorado State University. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and can be found in the collections of The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM; Colorado State University Art Museum, Fort Collins, CO; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, CO; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; University of Colorado, Denver, CO; The U.S. Embassy, The Hague, Netherlands; and The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, among others. In 2013 Morrison was featured in The Lannan Foundation’s exhibition, AGAIN, Repetition, Obsession, and Meditation in The Lannan Collection, and was included in the exhibition, CATALYST, at the Denver Botanical Gardens. Morrison currently lives and works in Colorado Springs. This is his fourth exhibition with Brian Gross Fine Art.
Artist:
PARD MORRISON
Born 1975, Colorado Springs, CO
Education
1997 BFA, Sculpture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Solo Exhibitions
2081 Heliotrope, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
In Fields, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Heavy Metal (Three Person Show), Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2016 New Work, Inde/Jacobs, Marfa, TX
2015 Spontaneous Order, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Hypnagogia, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Some Ghost, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Language of Man, Galerie Knoerle & Baettig, Winterthur, Switzerland.
2013 Chromaccumulations, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012 Supercollider, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Phantom Limbs, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Recent Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2010 Non-Fiction, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
At The Edge Of The World, RULE Modern and Contemporary, Denver, CO
Recent Work, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Street, San Francisco, CA
2008 Ghost Call Love, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Candyland, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 50 Ways To Fall In Love, RULE Modern and Contemporary, Denver, CO
Peripheral, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Pick Up, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005 Huminimalism, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
2004 Hybrids, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Surface and Structure, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2004 New Paintings and Sculpture, RULE Modern and Contemporary, Denver, CO
1997 Pilgrimage to Mnemosyne, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Star Gazing, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Joyful, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Power Play, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Wish You Were Here, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017 True To Form, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017 The Last Picture Show, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2016 James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Grand Opening, Inde/Jacobs, Marfa, TX
2014 Scope Basel, Galerie Knoerle & Baeting, Basel, SwitzerlandCelebrating American Artists, Collectors Contemporary Editions, Singapore, Singapore
Inaugural Show New Space, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO
outLINE, Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Coast Mesa, CA
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Confluence, ArtSpace @ Helutrans, SGAS, Singapore
AGAIN, Repetition, Obsession, and Meditation in the Lannan Collection, The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Catalyst, Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver, CO
Art of Renewal,James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Colour + Form + Function Approaches to Abstraction, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore
2011 Formal Elements, GOCA University of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
New Mexorado, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2010 Small Works: Art + Object, A Small Sculpture Invitational, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Stripped, Neo-Minimal Strategies in Contemporary Art, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Essential Forms: Intricate Meanings, Geometric Abstraction From The Permanent Collection, Colorado State University Art Museum, Fort Collins, CO
New Work, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2009 Front Room/Back Room, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Red, RULE Modern and Contemporary, Denver, CO
2008 Group Hug, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
7808, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 Los Angeles Art Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Baraker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
Spring Forward, FAC MODERN, Colorado Springs, CO
Peep Show, RULE Modern and Contemporary, Denver, CO
2006 Diptychs, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Comeback, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Small Works, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Love For Sale, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Colorado 2004, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Ford Park 5th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Jim Cotter Gallery, Vail, CO
Groupshow, James Tigerman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Colorado Art Expo, RULE Modern and Contemporary, Denver, CO
2003 James Tigerman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Objects, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Warhol, Lichtenstein, Morrison, Armour Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO
2002 Grids, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Art Without a Mouse, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Contemporary 2001, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO
2000 aHead Contemporary Art House, Provincetown, MA
1999 Three Emerging Artists, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
Collections
Acanthus Design
The Armour Foundation
The City of Vail, CO
The Collection of Agnes Martin
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
Colorado State University Art Museum
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
The Factory Lab, Denver CO
Fidelity Investments
The Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation
The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
New Iberia Bank, Lafayette, LA
Northern Colorado Aids Project
Saks Fifth Avenue
Shaesby Designs
U.S. Embassy, The Hague, Netherlands
University of Colorado, Denver, CO
University of Wyoming Art Museum
The Venetian, Las Vegas, NM
The Venetian, Capetown, South Africa
Wells Fargo Corporate Headquarters
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