Greg Morrissey

My art focuses on two area. The first focuses on living in an urban environment, in the midst of millions of people and how it can create a sense of loneliness and isolation. I use reflection and the grid-like pattern of architecture to convey this feeling. I remove the actual presence of people, but leave tell-tale signs of life. An open window, an illuminated room, a human shadow.
My second focus is the universal need for love in our life and how its loss can affect our lives. I often focus on lost love with various symbolic images, yet there is always some sense of hope in these losses. I want the viewer to realize these feelings may seem unique, but on many levels are universal to the human condition.
My work can also be viewed on my website:


A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. E.M. Forster.
"you’ll know it’s the place built out of man’s ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of man’s endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like man himself-loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth."
— Nelson Algren (Chicago: City on the Make)
He realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship-pa...

Burren College of Art Ballyvaughn Ireland 2010
School of the Art Institute of Chicago BFA 2011

"Urban Intersection" Quidley & Co. Boston Ma. 2012
"The Other Art Fair" Chicago. Sept. 2018
"The Other Art Fair" Chicago. May 2019
Paintings in collections in the U.S.,Asia, Europe, and Australia.
"This Is Me" International exhibition. The Art House Gallery. Sept. 2021