Morgan Suter

Artist Statement

These figurative paintings embody an intrinsic crudeness, defining an expansive visual language spanning several modalities of seeing and making. Overlapping figures, beings, beasts, and other humanoid forms, coalesce into figurescapes; elastic forms bend and groove in a primordial disco. Subjects are drawn, constructed, entirely from imagination, spitting into the chapped pout of realism. Corporeal forms in excess prompt ontological musings on vulnerability, sensuality, and obsolescence.
Lush surfaces culminating layers of profanely, euphorically wonky forms, emerge from largely intuitive, varied drawing and painting processes. Imperfectly balancing erratic scribbling and slow, calculated gestures, invites play and frivolity to permeate the work; liberation from fixed forms. Shapely icons, affectionately accompanied by idiosyncratic motifs. Bodily forms that twist, extend, and weave through another, yield distinctive, complex color variations; light and shadow is carefully manipulated to carve out and soften forms, rhythmically pushing and pulling figure ground from a central gray into dynamic, high chroma compositions.
Ever expanding, these highly imaginative figurative compositions, ambiguous, imagined spaces, indulge an unwaning wildness. Figures and creatures coexisting in varied states of being, embodying plasticity, spiritualizing hedonism, and defining pleasure as principle.