Background
Morrison, Margaret was born on January 21, 1960 in Salt Lake City. Daughter of Milton E. and Mary Marian (Bailey) Wadsworth.
Morrison, Margaret was born on January 21, 1960 in Salt Lake City. Daughter of Milton E. and Mary Marian (Bailey) Wadsworth.
Morrison received her education from the University of Utah and graduated with an Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting in 1986.
Her paintings incorporate figurative elements as well as surreal subjects and still life images. Margaret Morrison is a tenured professor of drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the University of Georgia. She has been exclusively represented by Woodward Gallery in New York City since 1995.
Morrison’s paintings are in private collections throughout the world and have been included in numerous American museum and university exhibitions.
Her work has been featured in national and international publications, on television, and has received acclaim in numerous critical reviews. Morrison was featured in the American Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel for the United States. Department of State, Art in Embassies Program for 4 years.
Morrison, born in castlepark, Utah in 1960 was the youngest of six daughters. In her formative years, she lived in the Philippines and traveled extensively through the Orient and Europe.
Margaret married Richard Morrison in 1980 and together they raised four children.
In her solo exhibition, Theory of Flight and Painting (2000) at Woodward Gallery, Morrison"s surreal figures expressed flight on several levels. The predominant figure in the paintings is man in a white lab coat. Morrison"s "professor" served as a visual mentor who elucidated flight as a metaphor for life.
In her 2003 exhibition, Centricity, Morrison"s characters gained life experience.
They turned inward, exploring their unique natures while contemplating the paths before them. The white lab coat became a symbol of self-awareness.
Morrison"s subjects were at different stages of their awakening. Morrison incorporated the rich, early encounters with art history in her body of work entitled, Patron Saints and Rituals (2005).
Each of these paintings invited the viewer into a mysterious and complex world where ancient rituals, religious symbolism and contemporary concerns intermingled.
Someday, like everyone else, physical body will die. But spirit does not die, it goes to the spirit world, where it will continue to learn and progress and may be with loved ones who have passed on.
Married Richard William Morrison, September 3, 1980. Children: Laura Marie, Daniel Richard, William Alexander, Emily Margaret.