Jonathan Morse Slices #2 2006 Inkjet print 20"x 27.5".
Jonathan Morse … "Digital imaging enables a confluence of visual sources and personal influences in the service of making something new and unique, as opposed to the republication of existing work. Digital artistry mirrors that process of construction and deconstruction through which the past becomes the new, and through which we literally make our mark. Yet it's just another pencil, taking its rightful place in the continuum of human mark-making." Morse obtained his MFA in photography at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. He has employed commercial printing processes to melt, distort and transform layers towards a recombinant vision....why make an image that has been seen before? Referring to Morse's digital work on canvas in 2004, Dottie Indyke wrote in Afterimage: "Morse's style is a blend of abstract and representational genres that echo painting. He teases his viewers with disparate elements that are not always easy to identify. The work is not comfortable to look at but confidently provokes the intellect." Public collections include the Museum of Modern Art Photography Department, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Addison Gallery of American Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.