Michael Morgan
I work with brick as my primary medium. We are all familiar with this geometric building unit especially in the brick-centric towns of America’s east coast, so if it is used to create sculpture it can help us see the specialness of the everyday world.
A brick sculpture can, without relying on overt representation, express a myriad of concepts. Just some of these concepts that I have conveyed through my artwork are: feelings of growing out of the ground, community, the passing of time, and of exuberance and dynamic movement.
I have completed a number of architectural scale projects; these have all been responsive to their given sites. “Arches of Resurgence” is a good example of my typical way of working, it is an iconic gateway sculpture. It draws together a variety of themes; the trees in nearby Fairmount Park, the neighborhood, urban architecture, the configuration of the site, ideas of resurgence, and contains a quotation of one time nearby resident, John Coltrane.
Ultimately my sculptures can create a stimulating place of both reflection and dynamism, a place to inspire and a reminder of the poetic role that our public spaces are capable of expressing.