Danny Morgan has the distinction, since the 70s, of having a dual career of being a successful musician and painter. After finishing a B.A. in Art at Eastern Kentucky University and having a short period of time as an art teacher, Morgan painted while simultaneously establishing himself as an individual guitar player, singer, and eventually as a band leader and talent representative.
Morgan’s recent abstract works have developed from his earlier representational works. His love of color and timeless fluidity of line and form are a product of both in his painting and guitar playing. In the process of creating his chords of color, he sometimes does skeleton sketches of color to create his lyrical canvases.
Morgan’s mission is not to dictate the meaning of the chords in his compositions, but is to create a colorful, visceral scored experience for the viewer. His paintings depict transitional space between music and color coming together into visual forms. The viewer interprets his or her own intellectual, emotional, and visceral response to each work.
Show continues through December 19
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