Exine by Paul Morrison
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Paul Morrison, Exine, 2008, The Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art, Photography by Erik Gould, © Courtesy Cheim and Read, New York and Alison Jacques Gallery, London |
The RISD Museum of Art has commissioned a new work, Exine by British artist Paul Morrison, for the walls of the Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Education Program Gallery. The artist's bold black-and-white wall paintings often depict botanical themes; the exine is the outer layer of the wall of a pollen grain. This breathtaking composition features dramatic shifts in scale, with outsized plant life juxtaposed with a distant landscape. Born in 1966 in Liverpool, Morrison received a BFA from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1988, and an MFA from Goldsmith's College of Art, London, in 1998. His work, steeped in a variety of historical sources yet utterly contemporary, has been presented at Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, The Drawing Center (New York), ICA (London), and other art institutions. This purchase was supported by the Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art.
