Alex Morrison

The Burnaby Art Gallery, SFU Gallery

Founded in 1988, Catriona Jeffries Gallery focuses on the current manifestations of post conceptual art practices in Vancouver as well as the origins of

“I have always been interested in what forms radical or sub-cultural activities will inhabit once they eventually make their debut upon the greater cultura...

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Alex Morrison in conversation about his recent works with photographer Christos Dikeakos at Inform.

Alex Morrison Nooks and Corners https://cagvancouver.org/exhibition/alex-morrison-nooks-corners For more than twenty years, the practice of Vancouver-based artist Alex Morrison has explored the aesthetics of utopian thought, whether as embedded in activism and counterculture or architecture and design. Highlighting the persistent ways radical ideals and impulses are historicized, distorted and repurposed over time, Morrison’s work traces the means by which even the most persuasive of vernaculars cycle from avant-garde to kitsch and commodity. In "Nooks and Corners," Morrison presents a suite of new and recent works in painting and sculpture that extend his ongoing investigation into cultural identification and the ways identity and politics are fashioned aesthetically, particularly in the domestic sphere. Whether reflecting on the migration of once-revolutionary abstractions into the decorative and ornamental, the house- plant as an object of status and signification, or architectural revivalisms emptied of their styles’ foundational integrities and optimisms, Morrison foregrounds the inevitable divergences between the original intent of a given aesthetic and its continuous, often contradictory adaptation to new social and political ends.

Alex Morrison has created a compelling body of work that employs architectural forms and references as a way of investigating a number of social issues and ideas.

A selection of works by the artist Alex Morrison