Joel Morrison, THE SIDE EFFECTS OF THINKING WITH A MINIMAL GLOCK
Sep 1st - Oct 28th 2016
Morrison (b. 1976, Seattle, Washington) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Inspired by iconic art movements such as Minimalism and L.A’s West Coast/Light and Space as well as by contemporary subculture, fashion, geopolitics and consumerist culture, Morrison's polished and refined sculptures are conceived by collaging the waste and unnecessities of modern life.
Objects collected from L.A street culture such as shopping carts, weather balloons, discarded gas cans, and bear traps are combined with the trappings of high fashion like Hermès bracelets and Moncler down jackets. Transformed into hybrids of high-end desirable and luxurious assemblages, Morrison’s sculptures illustrate with humor, irreverence and a touch of critique, the world of contemporary art, globalization, and–with added doses of personal biography–the seemingly final stages of America’s “Manifest Destiny”.
