Ron Morosan American, b. 1947

Ron Morosan is an American artist, writer, educator and curator. His paintings are semiotic constructs: the blocks of color, ambiguous organic shapes and purposefully crude drawings (some populating more than one painting), create compositions in which unintended narrative threads overlap. The titles often include cultural references which provide clues to enter his multiverse and to understand its private system of signs.

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Morosan’s work reflects on the contemporary world with its plethora of images and lack of focus on the underlying meanings. Geometry and categorical imperatives co-exist with Maeterlinck, Aldous Huxley, Max Weber, the “culture glut” and Louisa Mary Alcott in the pictorial space. Influences and correspondences range from early Dada at the Cabaret Voltaire, Surrealism, Hans Hofmann, but also Matisse’s line drawings. The paintings are not intended as solutions or archetypal narratives, but rather as fragments of a diary in which blocks of information facilitate fortuitous encounters that generate meaning and ultimately their own stories.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the American Pavilion of The Venice Biennale and the Circulo De Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. He has written extensively about art and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant; museum collections include MOCA Chicago, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, New Jersey State Museum, Islip Art Museum and others.