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Digital Animation Still 2006
'Alex Gene Morrison lures his audience into a world of melting heads, rotten carcasses and giant flies in his new exhibition of paintings, collages and animations. Known for his slick and slimy pictures of mutant creatures, Morrison creates a nasty world of characters whose features ooze down the page. Born in Birmingham in 1975, he graduated from the Royal College Of Art in 2002 and is a founder member of the artist collective Rockwell, who run a gallery in Hackney Downs. This exhibition, titled Vile Lure, is a combination of the beautiful and the bestial, enticing viewers with pale, washed out paintings as ethereal as Luc Tuyman's bleached out visions, which are then superseded by gut-wrenching animations'
Jessica Lack, Guardian Guide, October 2006
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Smooth swirls of abstraction clash with pixelated images. From children’s birthday cakes to rotting carcasses. A relentless flux of multi layered cultural references. Flipping from anxiety to ecstasy to melancholy to horror. A hypnotic aesthetic binds it all together; in keeping with modern societies seduction by a mass media that preys upon our increasingly voracious appetite for quick fix fulfilment.
Inevitably we end up narcotized, adrift in the void. An alternate space of the apocalyptically sublime erupts from the chasm. Destruction, evolution and survival loop round infinitely. A raging virtual primordial soup, both beautiful and rancid.
Pie Eyed Evolution- oil on linen 2006
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