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Pea Family (Leguminosae)

Stone lithograph (printed at Ohio University, with current faculty and students)

24″x36″

2018

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Peonies (for Jeremy) Oil on canvas 27"x27″ 2017

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Antlers Oil on canvas 24"x30″ 2017

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Pea Family (Leguminosae)

Stone lithograph (printed at Ohio University, with current faculty and students)

24″x36″

2017

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Sara Eve and Lucita Graphite, oil on duralar 42"x40" 2017

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An interview about my upcoming show, Oblivion, and the process behind it

-Interview and photo by Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics, Case Western Reserve University

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Misty Morrison

Oblivion

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Friday, March 31, 2017 to Sunday, July 23, 2017 Opening reception: March 31, 6-8pm ___________________________________________________

Statement:

“Is it not true that a given individual– an individual subjected like all others to event and history– has particular and specific remembrances as well as things forgotten? I shall risk setting up a formula: tell me what you forget and I will tell you who you are.”

Oblivion -Marc Augé

The paintings which comprise “Oblivion” grew out of a previous form, entitled “If You See Something...” They were then, and are still now, a meditation on witnessed experience, interpersonal relationships (specifically on how they form us individually as well as collectively), and the burden of responsibility we (again, individually and collectively) share when we observe violence, maltreatment, or neglect. They are, additionally, a visual manifestation of an abusive relationship where the abuse wasn’t seen– as well as an attempt to relate to the experience of abuse, thereby forming my own subjective understanding of it.

It was a group of works that I knew I would return to after the space of time had grown between the experience, the creation of the work, and the present. “Oblivion” is the form of that return– a moment to consider what remains after time has begun its own process of curation– where what is forgotten and what is remembered are of near equal significance to what is experienced in the present.

"Our practical life, our everyday life, individual and collective, both private and public, is concerned with these forms of oblivion. First we shall mention them by sticking to the purely descriptive level so that, in the end, we can ask ourselves the following question: from the composite of these reflections, which have greater bearing on the use of time than on time as such—from these indirect and pragmatic reflections, could we draw something resembling wisdom, an art of living, even a morality? The answer, if we find it, will have every chance of telling us something—not about those who will have asked the question (the "others”), even if through an intermediary, but about those who will have attempted to answer it: ourselves.“

Oblivion -Marc Augé

This group of paintings is one part of an on-going body of work that explores interpersonal relationships and the way they inform subjective identity- the formation of the subject- individually and collectively.

Augé , Marc. Oblivion. Trans: Marjolijn de Jager. University of Minnesota Press, 2004. ___________________________________________________

Source: https://center.pfpca.org/exhibitions/misty-morrison

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Misty Graphite, oil on duralar 26"x23" 2016

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Barry Graphite, oil on duralar 42"x40" 2016

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Amos Oil on canvas 14"x14" 2016

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Todd and Hot Sauce Oil on canvas 48"x56" 2016

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Sarah Pattern series, #3 Relief print/woodcut 11"x14"

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http://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1651

John Burt Sanders Pattern series, #2 Graphite, Oil on duralar 25"x40"

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John Burt Sanders Pattern series, #2 Graphite, Oil on duralar 25"x40"

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Dictionary entry Pattern series, #1 Graphite, Oil on duralar 16"x20"