Artist

Morrison, Alex

Title

The Poetics of Grey (No.11)

Technique

graphite

Date

2007

Type

drawing

Accession Number

2010.13

Collection

Permanent Collection

Purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program Oeuvre achetée avec l’aide du programme d’aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada

Alex Morrison is a Canadian artist who currently lives and works in Vancouver. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Vancouver Art Gallery; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; Musee d’art contemporain de Montréal; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Kunsthalle Vienna; Witte de With, Rotterdam; the 17th Sydney Biennial; Frankfurt Kunstverein; and Kunstverein Hannover. In 2015, the Burnaby Art Gallery and SFU Galleries produced the publication Phantoms of a Utopian Will: Like Most Follies, More than a Joke and More than a Whim.