UT Art Critic Praises Latest Library Exhibit
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San Diego Union-Tribune art critic praised the new art exhibit at the Pacific Beach/Taylor Branch Library. The exhibit, "Allan Morrow: Painting Fences," features more than thirty recent mixed-media constructions and related watercolors by Allan Morrow. VISIT HERE to read this review.
As one of San Diego’s best known artists in the 1970s and 1980s, Morrow’s visually stunning paintings – abstractions grounded in landscape – were among the most memorable art produced locally and exhibited internationally during those decades. During the 1980s Morrow exhibited with the Bullmoose Group, described by one critic as "urban art guerillas," whose members included Ron Williams, Eric Christian, Stuart Burton, Tom Frankovich, and Morrow. After an absence of nearly twenty years from the city’s art scene, Morrow has reemerged with a new body of work in which he reinterprets earlier themes while taking them in a fresh and surprisingly different direction.
Using fence iconography as a starting point, Morrow’s new pieces are highly structured, impeccably executed, framed and wall-mounted constructions incorporating flat as well as three-dimensional elements.
The Visual Arts Program, established in 1997, is a unique, nationally recognized program of museum quality art exhibitions held in libraries that are part of the San Diego Public Library system. The Visual Arts Program builds on the synergy between libraries and the visual arts to bring exposure to San Diego’s large, under-recognized population of contemporary artists, while providing quality cultural programming to library users and the art community. Visual Arts Program exhibitions attract viewers from a large geographical area to neighborhood libraries.
In addition to exhibitions, other Visual Arts Program activities include free artists’ lectures; a series of indepth televised interviews of exhibiting artists hosted by Library Curator Mark-Elliott Lugo.
To support the Visual Arts Program, contact Susan Howe at showe@supportmylibrary.org or 619-238-6643.
