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Paradigm Shift
August 2023
|American Art Collector
Margaret Morrison has been drawn to Baroque painting since she was a young girl. As an adult, she developed a mastery of the contrast of light and dark that characterizes Baroque style.
What she didn’t know is how that style would help her navigate a faith crisis that shook her to her core.
An exhibition of her work, Paradigm Shift: Paintings by Margaret Morrison, is currently on view at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, Georgia. The suite of 10 large oil paintings depict theatrical characters in dramatic poses and charts the artist’s allegorical grappling with her faith.
An art professor at the University of Georgia, Morrison teamed up with theater professor Anthony Marotta on a project titled Contemporary Examination of Caravaggio’s Dramatic Staging and Lighting - A Collaboration between Painting and Theatre. The project included a stage performance as well as photographic documentation. Morrison then worked from photographs to make her lushly-colored evocative paintings.
This story is from the August 2023 edition of American Art Collector.
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