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Artworks for State Buildings
Untitled #127/Clarence Morgan

RALEIGH/RTP
Location

Legislative Office Building, 300 N. Salisbury Street, 3rd floor Lobby
Building hours:
8 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekdays
Building information:
(919) 733-4111

Artist
Clarence Morgan

Biography
Morgan studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and received an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows throughout the United States. He currently teaches in the Department of Studio Art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Title, date

Untitled # 127, 1983

Artwork, media
Painting, acrylic on canvas



Project Description

Morgan's brightly colored abstract painting consists of two panels that mirror each other with identical images. Untitled #127 is an animated composition of geometric shapes and abstract forms that dance across the surface creating a lively rythm of color and light.

Pre-selection panel
Mitchell Kahan, North Carolina Museum of Art; Peter Plagens, Art Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Mary Mintich, artist, Belmont, N.C.; J.K. Sherron, Deputy Secretary for Government Operations, Department of Administration; George Hall, Legislative Services; Herbert McKim, architect, Ballard, McKim & Sawyer; Ted Potter, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

 


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