Hammer Museum exhibits Epic Collages of Aaron Morse

Written by Kenneth Jennings Sunday, 21 August 2011 21:30

 

Los Angeles, CA -  Aaron Morse is a Los Angeles-based artist whose paintings depict epic collages of imagery pulled from sources as divergent as 20th-century American politics, 19th-century Romantic literature, comics, art historical painting genres, and current events. For the Hammer Museum’s lobby walls, Morse created Timeline, a monumental wallpaper design that has been printed and reworked by hand-painting. Timeline is a densely composed vertical collage that depicts events from the Big Bang to the imagined future. Disproportionate visual space is given to things here on earth, with groups of figures simultaneously ordered and chaotically jumbled.

Aaron Morse was born in 1974 in Tucson, Arizona. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1998. Selected solo exhibitions include ACME, Los Angeles (2007, 2005, and 2003) and Guild and Greyshkul, New York (2006). Selected group exhibitions include

MATRIX 213: Some Forgotten Place, Berkeley Art Museum (2004) and International Paper, Hammer Museum (2003). He has recently published a lithograph for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Hammer Projects is a series of exhibitions focusing primarily on the work of emerging artists. This exhibition on view through 12 June, 2008.

Hammer Projects is made possible with support from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, Fox Entertainment Group’s Arts Development Fee, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, members of the Hammer Circle, and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024 - For more information, call (310) 443-7000, TTY (310)-443-7094, or visit  www.hammer.UCLA.Edu         

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