MORGAN BLUE
FEATHERBED
13.12.24 ~ 02.02.25
In near every regard, we are living in a deficit of wonder. Politically, technologically, environmentally, socially, we are bereft. And if genuine wonder does occur, the internet does a capricious job of consuming it and accelerating its journey to critical mass, only to bleach it of its original vibrancy. Through a very small interstice in this malaise comes Morgan Blue’s Featherbed. Adorned in cosmic codes and iconographies from a dreamscape out of time, the paintings in this exhibition arrive as light through a stain glass window.
Featherbed is wilfully and gleefully corny. Corny like a field of wildflowers is corny, corny like a cloudless night sky is corny, corny like flying a kite is corny. Featherbed abandons any inclination for posturing and submits to something honeyed. Sentiment is abundant, constraint absent. Here, cars race atop the rings of Jupiter, a lizard plays the horn, Snoopy takes a bubble bath. While there is an apparent absence of regularity or sameness from painting to painting, the works still come together in harmonious chorus. Read More…
- Claire Summers
Photography: Claire Summers
