“How much can anything be?

Reducing everything to its common denominator (a curve, an angle, a straight line or combinations of the two) – I’ve started with what many may say is nothing – to me everything.

I’ve allowed myself to start all over. I’ve found first grade again. Sometimes more literal at other times less. To show something we all know in a way never perceived = my answer…….or to create a belief in that which we may not know = another answer.

As an artist, my performing past surfaces and I remain that entertainer to this day.

Given the choice of work or play, I’ve chosen play.

The Carnival’s Fun House, the Midway’s Penny Arcade, Pinball Machines, Shooting Galleries, Carnival Board Games, Rides …the acrobats, high acts and all…my Fun House scribble filled.

Sometimes – I strip away all identity to juggle, balance, levitate and defy gravity through simple line. It is here my pen becomes the Magician’s Magic Wand…and for what purpose?

I create safe havens, mindscapes, places to play, places to ponder, momentary impossible realities.

Here I find hope for all our tomorrows. Visual Vitamins for a world in need.

…most recently I continue this quest with a computer in hand, using a state of the art dye fused aluminum process to transform my images.” -K.M.

From EBK Gallery:

EBK Gallery is excited and honored to have Ken Morgan’s artwork on exhibit.

We largely focus on how technology and its progress has benefited us. True, but, it is also technology that owes a debt of gratitude to the creative mind, and a bigger one to the poetic mind. Ken Morgan embodies both.

Trying to describe or speak about Ken’s work using inadequate and faulty words like computer art or digital media I find, creates more of a barrier for a viewer than an illumination of the artist’s work. Indeed, the images on exhibit are created using the computer and mouse instead of a canvas and a brush. But they are none the less “painted” and drawn on screen. Each piece evolves as the artist works. And as he works, it’s as if there’s an exchange of frequencies between the screen and the artist’s brain. The CPU is the sensor that captures these visual marks and thoughts.

After having survived a stroke some years back, technology has allowed Ken to regenerate the ability to create artwork once more. And the world is surely a better place for it as he is one of those unique artists on the front line of what is defining the relationships between painting and technology without compromising the poetic core of the abstract artist. -EBK