Paul Morrison, Endophyte (detail), 2001, Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 60 inches. Collection Mark Sandelson

LAS VEGAS.-The Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM) presents an exhibition featuring recent works by British-based artist Paul Morrison, which will be on view from February 2 through April 27, 2008. The artist’s Las Vegas debut will include a large site specific wall painting, entitled Phytochrome, in the LVAM Main Gallery, and six paintings and works on paper in the Polis-Carver Gallery. The LVAM Members’ Preview will be held on Friday, February 1, 2008 from 6-8 pm. Prior to the Preview, Paul Morrison will present a showing of his recent films from 4-6 pm, free admission.

Paul Morrison is noted for his distinctive, black and white graphic-style compositions, which feature a pastiche of discrete, highly stylized representational forms that appear derived from disparate graphic genres. Drawing inspiration for his motifs from sources that range from popular cartoons to botanical drawings to Renaissance woodcuts, and often maintaining incongruous scale, Morrison unifies his compositions with artificial spatial configurations that nevertheless intimate perspectival recession.

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