New Maquette: 2019, paperboard, 29.5″x9″x9″ Light, shadow and visual dissonance are the essence of this sculpture. Propelled by an almost jarring arithmetic, the pyramids play with our senses – on the sides, six different faces stretch from top to bottom yet the top and bottom each have only three edge andwhileeach pyramid has four corner points the entire sculpture contains only six — creating an illusion of constant changes depending on point of view and ambient light. From various angles the form morphs from upright column to slightly leaning column to slanted, flat-topped obelisk to minimalist bowtie stood on end – and back again (and again). In shifting daylight, light and…

installed on Moreland Avenue, Atlanta 2011, painted wood, 10′ x 1′     In 2011, Flux Projects sponsored a sculptural installtion by Charlie Brouwer, Rise Up, at Freedom Park overlooking Moreland Avenue near the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. To create the project, the artist asked area residents to donate or loan ladders, including handmade ladders. John Morse created a handmade ladder painted in staggered black and white, a reference to both race relations and a strand of DNA, the common thread of humanity. In May 2013, Upwas repaired, repainted and returned to Atlanta’s Moreland Avenue near the intersection of Confederate Avenue, approximately three miles south of its original debut.

Click on any project title to view more details The World Of Coca-Cola 2017, plastic foam model in the shape of a Coke bottle, hand-painted plastic “leaves,” globe made from plastic foam base, tissue paper collage ocean and continents, cotton wording, approximately 60″ x 18″ The New Blocks 2016, nine handmade, interchangeable photo cubes, magnets, approximately 5″ x 15″ x 15″ **video at the link The Color Spectrum at the Guggenheim 2014, guerrilla performance piece, six models, each wearing an oversized t-shirts in one of the colors of the rainbow flag. Read The Wall Street Journal’s feature on the installation here. Far 2013, 21 cardboard cubes covered in metallic adhesive…

Paint It Black (and White) — is studio’s newest collage portrait  John Morse   Paint It Black and White, found paper collage, 34 x 45.5 in. In a rare departure from his usual colorful palette of found papers, Morse largely relied on shades of black and white and every grey in between.  The work was commissioned by a New York collector.   Riot Act makes its summer 2022 debut John Morse    Riot Act, 2022, found paper collage, 35″x44″ Using a wide variety of colorful found papers as though they were a palette of oil paints — signature elements of the artist’s collages — Morse fashioned this commissioned  image. (Riot…