THE ART OF MICHELE MORGAN
​​​I was raised in the small desert town of Apple Valley, Ca. It has the most beautiful sunsets, panoramic mountains and wide-open spaces. My biggest influence was my high school teacher, Mr. John Kurtz. He threw a blob of white paint onto a painting I was trying to perfect. Wow! Then he smoothed it out in a matter of seconds. He showed me how to let go.
This lesson I still use today as I can throw more paint over a bad painting and create something much more imaginative that I intended in the first place. My collectors are amazed when I tell them there might be 3 other paintings underneath it. The depth of my medium is created underneath and within. I might use layers of collage and paint right over it so you never see it except something unrecognizable and faint. This is more intriguing to the eye. I wish Mr. Kurtz were alive to see how he influenced my work today.
Michele Morgan, a practicing artist, has had over 40 group and solo shows from California to the East Coast, Hawaii and Texas. She is a graduate of the Interior Design Institute of Newport Beach, California, Saddleback and Orange Coast Colleges, and continues online coaching and classes to renew her style.
Art on 30th - San Diego Aug 2024
Laguna Art at Mission Hills, CA –
Artists Center at the Galen - Palm Desert, CA - June 2024
Metropolitan Design Art Clout - Long Bch, CA Current
Covet Art Gallery, Oceanside, CA 2024
Greenly Art Space , Long Beach, CA 2024
Huntington Beach Art Center – Jan 2024
Long Beach Open Studio - Oct 2023
LBCG/Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2023
Cherry Wood Gallery, San Pedro, CA - July - August 2023
LBCG/Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach, CA – Jan 2023
Huntington Beach Art Center – Jan 2023
Greenly Art Space, Long Beach, CA – December 2022
Trinity Art Show 6th Annual National Juried Exhibition -Sparrow Gallery - Sacramento – Oct 2022
Art Clout – “Fresh” – May – June 2022
LBCG Rod Briggs Gallery - “Painting Long Beach”– March 2022
Red Bluff Art Gallery – Feb thru June 2022
Huntington Beach Art Center – Jan 2022
Art Clout/Page Against Machine – Jan 2022
Nuditas Group Exhibition – Sept 2021
Las Laguna Art Gallery – Aug 2021
LBCG – Long Beach Creative Group – July 2020
Art Clout – March 28, 2020 – April 2, 2020
OCMA – Emerging Artists Show - Orange County Museum of Art - 2019
Metropolitan Design - Long Beach – June 2019
Huntington Beach Art Center – 2019
Huntington Beach Art Center – 2018
Hellada Gallery – Long Beach – 2018