Jeremy Morgan of the S.F. Art Institute Mixes East with West

SF WEEKLY
March 21, 2011

Jeremy Morgan

CALIFORNIA - Artist Jeremy Morgan recounts the day his parents gave him "various mystical texts" including Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Koran. "All of these are possibly right," they told him. "You need to figure that out." Morgan, an associate professor of painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, has been exploring that through painting ever since. The arresting images in his large-scale abstractionist landscape paintings fall somewhere between dream and reality, with colors that appear to transform, as they might in a memory. "I desire to create the moment as sensation rather than record," he says. [link]