ABOUT

Morgan Canavan, b. 1989, is an artist who has held two person and solo exhibitions with Sweetwater, Berlin, Atlanta Contemporary, White Flag Library, Saint Louis, Hester, New York and Blood Gallery, Brooklyn. Canavan's work has been included in group exhibitions with Storage Gallery, New York; Potts, Alhambra; Kimberly Klark, Queens; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; VI Dancer, Oakland; and Chin's Push, Los Angeles. Canavan studied at the Malmö Art Academy, Yale Norfolk and holds a BFA from the Cooper Union, New York. Morgan Canavan lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Some of my sculptures are welded together. Imagine the conductivity of these works, as if a tuning fork is struck and set on the surface, so that the sound resonates the object. In an artwork, this tone has a capacity to describe ontological spaces as much as it describes the object it passes through.

While the activity within my sculptures is visible at reading distance, the artworks aren’t necessarily textual. My process involves shifting the meaning of an object by changing the density in which it is reconstituted.

That tuning fork might reverberate in another manner. One day I visited a fiberglass shop and afterward drove to a wildflower preserve down the road. The contrast in these experiences of color, density and absorption in smell made me wonder how the interior of a sculpture is permeable to space.