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.
His passion
for rhythm coincides with the way he uses both his brush and his
guitar. Utilizing warm, vibrant saturations of color, Morgan
succeeds in creating a visceral, lyrical composition of chords
comprised of organic and biomorphic shapes.
The
quick-drying qualities of acrylic paint make it a natural choice
for Morgan, provoking the actual action of painting. Music is an
inherent quality in Morgan's work, using the brush in the same
fluid manner he plays chords on his guitar; sometimes
spontaneous, but also deliberate. His actions with the vibrate,
reaching out to make splashes of forms and color, while at the
same time creating notes of color that often disconnect and
connect like music.
\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 form. The viewer interprets his or
her own intellectual, emotional, and visceral response to each
work.
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