Clarence Morgan’s practice in painting and drawing creates spaces for speculation and unscripted modes of being and knowing. Welcoming his first engagement with Bockley Gallery, Morgan’s solo exhibition, Thought Notes, brings together a more recent selection of works (2006–2015) from his fifty-year career. As the title speaks to Morgan’s relation to and reverence for thought’s fragmentary, temporary, and hovering nature, it materializes his consistent studiousness with thought as a mark-making practice that embodies scripted and sonic notes on life.
Conversation: Clarence Morgan with Taylor Jasper, Associate Curator, Walker Art Center Saturday, May 6, 3:30–4:30 pm
Opening Reception, Saturday, May 6, 5–7 pm
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acrylic, collage and drawing on canvas over panel
60 x 60 inches
![Clarence Morgan, Analogous Vignettes, 2011](https://bockleygallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Analogous-Vignettes-2011.jpg)
acrylic, collage and drawing on canvas over panel
60 x 60 inches
![Clarence Morgan, Double Circuit, 2010](https://bockleygallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Double-Circuit-2010.jpg)
acrylic, black gesso, colored pencil, ink and collage on canvas over panel
60 x 60 inches
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acrylic, black gesso, ink, colored pencil, collage on canvas on aluminum panel
78 x 78 inches
![Clarence Morgan, Topology, 2009](https://bockleygallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Topology-2009.jpeg)
red carbon transfer, black gesso, collage on Moleskin paper
10 x 8 inches
![Clarence Morgan, Symbolic Communication, 2009](https://bockleygallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Symbolic-Communication-2009.jpeg)
red carbon transfer, black gesso, collage on Moleskin paper
10 x 8 inches
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acrylic, black gesso, paint-marker and collage on canvas over panel
18 x 18 inches