Preview Philip Morsberger: Time Travelers

PHILIP MORSBERGER: TIME TRAVELERS

is @ Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady St., Columbia, SC

Oct. 16 – 27, 2009

For installation shots of the exhibition,

CLICK HERE.

For more information, contact Wim Roefs: (803) 238-2351 / wroefs@sc.rr.com

For an essay about Philip Morsberger related to the Time Travelers exhibition, CLICK on the text to the left.

Many of the works below are in the TIME TRAVELERS exhibition:

Remembrance Of Things Past, 2002–2005

Oil on canvas

59 x 27 1/8 in.

$ 9,250

The Girl Next Door, 1999 – 2009

Oil on canvas

28 ¼ x 19 in.

$ 3,850

Steppin’ Out!, 2006

Oil on canvas

48 x 36 in.

$ 10,000

Supplication, 1996–2008

Oil on canvas

40 x 26 in.

$ 6,750

Sons And Lovers, 2009

Oil on canvas

22 x 28 in.

$ 4,250

Loaded Words, 1998

Oil on canvas

33 5/8 x 21 ¼ in.

$5,000

Layerings, 1986 – 2009

Oil on muslin

35 ¼ x 23 in.

$ 5,700

Last Call, 2002–2008

Oil on canvas

30 x 24 in

$ 5,000

Jes’ Folks, 1980 – 2008

Oil on canvas

39 ½ x 29 ½ in.

$ 7,250

Hats Off!, 2004–2007

Oil on canvas

48 x 36 in.

$ 10,000

Golden Girl, 2007–2009

Oil on canvas

24 x 30 in.

$ 5,000

Airborne, 1990–1992

Oil on canvas

48 x 42 in.

$ 11,250

La Barricade, 2006-2007

Oil on canvas

48 x 36 in.

$ 10,000

Exit Stage Right, 2002-2003

Oil on canvas

48 x 36 in.

$ 10,000

Bagatelle, 2002

Oil on canvas

48 x 36 in.

$ 10,000

Blue Boy, 1999-2008

Oil on canvas

43 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.

$ 5,000

Oxford 2006, No. 8, 2006

Acrylic on paper

16 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.

$ 3,000

The Thinker, 2002-2008

Oil on canvas

30 x 24 in.

$ 5,000

Daydreams, 2008-2009

Oil on canvas

19 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.

SOLD

The Sign Of The Four, 2005-2009

Oil on wood

26 x 20 in.

$ 3,750

SOLD

That-A-Way, 2002-2006

Oil on canvas

30 x 24 in.

$ 5,000

The Gathering Storm, 1999-2001

Oil on wood

23 3/4 x 20 in.

$ 3,500

Blithe Spirits (No. 2), 1984 – 2005
Oil on canvas
69 x 33 in.

$ 12,500

Dog Day Afternoon, 2003-2005

Oil on canvas

47 x 68 1/2 in.

$ 16,000

Evolution Of A House Painter, 2004-2005
Oil on canvas
45 3/4 x 68 5/8 in.
$ 16,000

Ghosts, 2004

Oil on canvas

47 3/4 x 68 3/4 in.

$ 16,000

Golgotha, 1982-1992

Oil on canvas

41 x 60 in.

$ 13,500

Looking Up, 1980-1982

Oil on canvas

27 3/4 x 38 in.

$ 6,750

Metamorphosis, 1995-2002

Oil on canvas

39 1/2 x 68 1/8 in.

$ 16,000

Rococo Redux,

Oil on canvas

48 x 36 in.

$ 10,000

Text/Subtext, 1999-2001

Oil on canvas

69 x 39 3/4 in.

$ 16,000

The Man Himself, 1998-2001

Oil on canvas

76 1/8 x 44 3/8 in.

$ 17, 500

The Striped Hat Band, 1992-2006

Oil on canvas

69 x 36 1/4 in.

$ 16,000

First Steps, 1999-2005

Oil on canvas

69 x 44 in.

$ 16,000

The Voice Of The Turtle, 1997-2004

Oil on canvas

69 1/4 x 42 in.

$ 14,500

The Hunting Ridge Follies, 1985-1996

Oil on canvas

68 3/4 x 33 3/4 in.

$ 12,500

Reflections, 2001-2002

Oil on canvas

40 x 68 3/4 in.

$ 14,500

Maelstrom, 1990

Oil on canvas

69 x 44 1/2 in.

$16, 000

Ivy Cavendish, 1958

Oil on masonite

24 x 15 3/8 in.

$ 5,000

His Girl Friday, 1990-2001

Oil on canvas

68 x 43 3/4 in.

$ 16,000

Golgotha No. 2, 1994-2002

Oil on canvas

69 1/8 x 30 1/8 in.

$ 12,000

Ghosts No. 2, 2002-2005

Oil on canvas

68 1/4 x 41 in.

$ 14,500

Emergence, 1992-2002

Oil on canvas

69 x 35 in.

$ 13,000

Cornish Fantasy No. 1, 1976

Oil on canvas

11 7/8 x 24 in.

$ 5,000

Ascension, 1999-2001

Oil on canvas

68 3/4 x 44

$16,000

Reflection

Young Woman Seated, 2001

Oil on canvas

30 x 24 in.

$ 5, 000

Tuxedo-Junction, 1998

Oil on canvas

43 x 69 in.

$ 15,000

Tick-Tock!, 2005-2006

Oil on canvas

48 x 36 in.

$ 10,000

Works of art by Philip Morsberger are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

CLIP OF PHILIP MORSBERGER'S STUDIO

Below is a clip of Philip Morsberger's studio, with Philip in the background telling a tale to his visitors.

PHILIP MORSBERGER & DAVID YAGHJIAN

if ART Gallery

presents at

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady St., Columbia, S.C.

Philip Morsberger – Time Travelers

&

David Yaghjian – Dancing Man

Oct. 16 – 27, 2009

Artists’ Reception:

Friday, Oct. 16, 5 –9 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. and by appointment

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

With its two simultaneous solo exhibitions at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, S.C., if ART Gallery introduces the widely revered painter Philip Morsberger. Morsberger is the former head of the Oxford University art department in England; he recently joined if ART Gallery. Along with the Morsberger’s show, Time Travelers, if ART presents Columbia native and resident David Yaghjian’s solo exhibition Dancing Man. Yaghjian’s will be his first solo exhibition in Columbia since 2000, when he exhibited at the now-defunct Morris Gallery. The exhibition will also be Yaghjian’s first solo exhibition featuring his “every man” series, which he began to develop some five years ago.

Morsberger (b. 1933) will be showing a selection of the vigorously painted and drawn figurative/representational works inhabited with cartoon-like and other creatures for which he is known. The exhibition also will include Morberger’s non-objective paintings, in which he develops an abstract-expressionist approach that also often shows through in his representational work. In the 2007 book Philip Morsberger: A Passion for Painting, author Christopher Loyd writes of Morsberger’s “mythical universe, comprising a whole cast of fantastical creatures, both human and animal. . . All these creatures inhabit a turbulent, chaotic world that is hugely energized and dominated by a mood of restlessness.” About Morsberger’s use of colors, Loyd writes: “Color is a distinctive feature of the recent narrative paintings . . . The colors sing on the canvas.” Baltimore native Morsberger studied at Oxford in the mid-1950s and from 1971-1984 was the university’s Ruskin Master of Drawing. He used the prestigious position to develop and head a now renowned, full-blown art department at Oxford University. In the United States, Morsberger has taught at Harvard University, Dartmouth University, UC Berkeley, the California College of Arts and Crafts, Miami University and other institutions. He retired from teaching after a five-year stint as Williams S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at Augusta State University in Augusta, Ga. His work is in several museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Art.

Yaghjian (b. 1948) will present a selection of his most recent “Everyman” paintings. Many of the works present metaphoric and symbolic, often psychologically pregnant scenes showing a man edging toward post-middle age, and physically somewhat resembling Yaghjian, going through “real” or fantastic trials and tribulations. “The images,” Yaghjian says, “are a way of acknowledging the below-the-surface currents. Stating in a full frontal position the obvious and not so obvious. A man is a man angry, sad, fat, dying, elated, lecherous, leprous, deflated, pompous, hilarious…on his head, with a dog, with a monkey. Sometimes a woman accompanies him. They are figurative pieces, fantasies, what I call ‘semi narratives’. They are scenes of a midpoint in a situation.”

Yaghjian has exhibited across the Carolinas, including at the Blue Spiral I Gallery in Asheville, N.C., if ART Gallery and the Florence (S.C.) Museum of Art. In Atlanta, where he used to live, Yaghjian has shown in the Spruill Center Gallery, the Right Brain Gallery and other venues. He also painted two murals in the Georgia capital. Yaghjian holds a BA from Massachussetts’ Amherst College and studied in New York City at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Art. Among his instructors were Fairfield Porter, Leonard Baskin, Will Barnett and Chaim Koppelman.

Installation shots Time Travelers exhibition

Philip Morsberger: Time Travelers

an if ART Gallery exhibition

@

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady St., Columbia, SC

Oct. 16 – 27, 2009

PHILIP MORSBERGER Bio

Baltimore native Philip Morsberger (b. 1933) studied at Oxford in the mid-1950s and from 1971-1984 was the university’s Ruskin Master of Drawing. He used the prestigious position to develop and head a now renowned, full-blown art department at Oxford University. In the United States, Morsberger has taught at Harvard University, Dartmouth University, UC Berkeley, the California College of Arts and Crafts, Miami University and other institutions. He retired from teaching after a five-year stint as Williams S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at Augusta State University in Augusta, Ga. His work is in several museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Art.