'Transcend' by Forrest Morgan

About the Exhibit, from Forrest Morgan:
This is my first time showing my paintings in a gallery setting, and my hope is for my body of works to connect deeply with the viewer. I pour my heart, energy and time into each piece. When I start a new piece, I usually let it speak for itself, and determine what it's saying when I complete it. What will these pieces say to you?
Slow down, and breathe them in. I hope these pieces provoke a deeper awareness, and abstract thought. The improbability and undeniability of the existence of self. The honest awareness of pain, death, and suffering. The broken and precious self, the awareness thereof; life learning to study life, yearning for something beautiful and meaningful. The feeling that we are all a part of something unimaginably vast, as tiny stars in an infinite cosmos; yet we are intimately created, intimately loved, intimately beautiful life.

About the Artist:
Forrest Morgan is a fine artist living in Littleton, Colorado. He works with oil paints on wood panel to create provocative works, expressing a wide range of emotion and contemplation. His subject matter is usually that of the human figure, and explores existential wonder, anatomy, spiritual struggle, and abstract thought.
Forrest started oil painting in 2021, after primarily working with colored pencil for years. He is largely self-taught, and has also taken classes through the Art Student’s League of Denver, and RMCAD. In recent years, Forrest has done a number of commission works for clients. In 2019, he was selected to create a 9 piece series depicting the Stations of the Cross, exhibited both locally and in California. Since taking up oil painting, he has found more vibrancy and depth in his artistic voice. In 2025, he is to display his paintings for the first time in gallery settings, as he pushes to further his career as an artist

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