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source: designcollectornet

Los Angeles-based artist Joel Morrison presents a new body of stainless steel assemblages. An unwavering conceptual framework is fused with everyday objects and encased in seamlessly refined exteriors. Through flawless surfaces and impeccable fabrication, Morrison effectively lubricates the raw and, at times, gritty, underlying reality in his work.
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source: yatzer

At first, Joel Morrison’s work might seem banal, or even grotesque; smooth shiny surfaces bear a resemblance to Jeff Koons’ oversized balloon artworks, mundane objects are seemingly randomly plopped onto a steel form and melted together to make the one sculpture. Having said that, these highly polished works combine both Pop Art and Surrealism and demonstrate the artist’s craftsmanship that go even so far as to recall the mastery of British sculptor Tony Cragg. The elevated status given to these everyday objects, just by displaying them outside of their habitual surroundings, forces us to really look at them which as the Gagosian Gallery believes produces a ”reinvented dystopia”.

Reinvented dystopia or not, for defunct Austrian artist, Franz West, Joel Morrison’s work possesses…. ”A raw reality that remains supple by being lubricated or oiled with a kind of sarcasm.” Indeed, his sculptures look rather comical, an example being Well Bred which demonstrates the artist’s neo-classical style in which the bust dons a croissant as a moustache; a reflection of South Californian Hispanic ‘cholo’ sub-culture.

While Morrison makes numerous implicit cultural references and links to works by other artists, this isn’t a simple case of reading around his work in order to feel the immediate pull the sculptures exert. The flawlessly polished works reflect their surroundings like convex liquid mirrors. Despite their static nature, they are dynamic and in constant motion, where the passing reflections of those that view them create momentary shifts in their surfaces. Neither created by an industrial team, nor through machinery to reach the desired result, the result in Morrison’s work exhibits absolute mastery and skill.
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source: etodayru

Джоел Моррисон (Joel Morrison) — современный американский художник. Родился в Сиэттле в 1976 году. Окончил Claremont Graduate University в Клермонте. Работает в жанре скульптуры.