Barry Morrison

Barry Morrison - b. 1949

Red River Gorge, Kentucky, USA

Barry Morrison is an American Abstract Expressionist Artist.

His work is part of private, public, corporate, university and international art
collections. The focus of his work is color, form, and the emotion it evokes.

Morrison returned to his life of work as an artist following a series of life-changing events. While he considers the greatest artists of the abstract expressionist movement to be Pollock, de Kooning, Kline and Rothko, he enjoys them only for the great masters they were and for the great gifts they left us. Although these artists inspired him to follow his own unique language of artistic expression, his art pays them no homage. He has ultimately become his own muse by choice and by absolute necessity.

Brummet, Jennifer, "Artist's Style Changes As Life's Stormy Waters Settle for Him" The Advocate Messenger 2 Mar. 2008: Arts Section

Brummet, Jennifer, ""The Road to Peace: Paintings Reflect a Time of Transition for Artist" The Advocate Messenger 27 Mar. 2007: Feature Section

Egerton, John, "Generations; An American Family", Winner of the 1984 Lillian Smith Award

In the process of being reconstructed

Morrison was reared on a 565 acre ancestral farm in the Red River Gorge of eastern Kentucky. His father was a farmer and forester; his mother an artist and environmental activist. He attended the following Universities in the United States:

Morehead State University, Northern Michigan University(Bachelor of Arts) with additional graduate work completed @ Eastern Kentucky University

The 1984 Lillian Smith Award winning book, "Generations" authored by John Egerton, chronicles the saga of the Ledford family of Kentucky (The family of the artists mother)The citation:"Generations transcends family biography to become a social history of our national experience; a metaphor for America".,

2011:

"Between the Eternities; The Art of Barry Morrison"

Presented by:

The Danville Art Center
Danville, Kentucky, USA