George Morrison: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1950s–1960s

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works on paper and paintings by Ojibwe artist George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Chippewa, 1919–2000), on view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Organized in collaboration with the George Morrison Estate and Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, this marks the first solo presentation of the artist’s work in Los Angeles.

A celebrated abstractionist, Morrison is known for compositions that express both a phenomenology inspired by his birthplace and the fervent beginnings of abstract expressionism in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Born and raised on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, Morrison moved to New York on scholarship in 1943 and studied at the Art Students League. His close colleagues in the city included Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Louise Nevelson. He traveled to France as a Fulbright Scholar in 1952; there, he continued to develop a signature style of abstraction that combined elements of expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.