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November Issue 2004
Nina Liu & Friends in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Aggie Zed and John D. Morgan - Together
Nina Liu and Friends in Charleston, SC, will present an exhibition entitled, Things Do Bite Back, that features drawings and sculpture by Aggie Zed and John D. Morgan. The exhibit will be on view from Nov. 5 - Dec. 15, 2004.
Gallery owner Nina Liu says that Zed and Morgan are friends who "wanted to exhibit their work together because both of them assemble their sculptures from components of found objects and handmade parts." Zed first exhibited her small ceramic figures of humans and animal-human hybrids at the gallery in 1990. Since that time her regular exhibitions at the gallery have included drawings and more complex sculptures. Things Do Bite Back is the second exhibit of Morgan's assemblages at the gallery.
Aggie
Zed
Zed grew up on Sullivans Island, SC, and graduated from the University of South Carolina before moving to Richmond, VA. After establishing her studio, Zed began working with clay, producing remarkable objects ranging from masks and suits of "armor" to haunting figures that recall myths of the Minotaur and Circe's shape-shifting incantations. Her drawings are laden with personal symbols that invite multiple interpretations, and her more complicated sculptures command attention in a way that belies their relatively small size.
Zed has been the recipient of a Virginia Museum Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts award in sculpture.
John
D. Morgan
Morgan earned an MFA in painting and drawing at Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Sweet Briar College. By virtue of their format and scale, Morgan's assemblages call to mind the work of Joseph Cornell. He uses titles that refer to artists such as Marcel Duchamp and René Magritte, indicating that, like his predecessors, he fully understands and exploits the artist's freedom to experiment with media and iconography to challenge established norms and create a new visual vocabulary.
Morgan has been the recipient of two consecutive
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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