RICH MORGAN works full-time as a contemporary artist from his painting studio in "Old East Elm" and his workshop & digital studio in Far North Dallas. His major work tends toward large scale, reductive abstraction, reflecting his previous experience as an architect and interior designer.
EDUCATION
1968 Bachelor of Architecture - Kansas State University
Continuing Education studies of art led by Betsy Belcher, Rita Blasser, Chung Chu, Don Taylor and John Walker.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004 - Present Professional Artist
1968 - 2004 Practicing Architect, Interior Designer, Urban Designer
EXHIBITIONS
2008 AIA Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo, site-specific installation)
2007 Art in the Metroplex, T C U, Fort Worth, Texas (juried exhibition)
2007 Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas (juried exhibition)
2007 AIA Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo exhibition)
2007 14th Street Gallery , Plano, Texas, (four person exhibition)
2007 TVAA Gallery, Plaza of the Americas, Dallas, Texas (member exhibitions)
2007 TVAA Gallery, Plaza of the Americas, Dallas, Texas (juried exhibitions)
2006 American Fine Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas (benefit for Alley's House)
2006 Artists' Showplace Gallery, Dallas, Texas (group exhibitions)
2006 Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas, "Outside the Lines" (juried exhibition)
2006 Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas (juried group exhibitions)
2006 Friends of Lakewood Library Annual Show, Dallas, Texas (juried exhibition)
2006 Lone Star Performance, Garland, Texas (solo exhibition)
2006 The Gallery at Frame and Art, Dallas, Texas (group show)
2006 TVAA Citation Show, Dallas, Texas (juried exhibition)
2006 TVAA "Written Word" Show, Dallas Texas (group exhibition)
2006 TVAA "Members Show", Dallas Texas (group exhibition)
2005 Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas "Day of the Dead" (juried exhibition)
2005 14th Street Gallery, Plano, Texas (group exhibition)
2005 NLAPW Annual Show, Dallas Texas, "Creative Pursuit" (juried group exhibition)
AWARDS
Best of Show Award, 2007 TVAA Gallery Group Exhibition
Jurors Award, 2006 TVAA Citation Show
Purchase Award, 2006 Brookhaven College Juried Exhibition
Jurors Award, 2005 NLAPW Annual Show "Creative Pursuit"
COLLECTIONS
Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas
Brooks-Johnson and Associates, LLP, Dallas, Texas
Rick and Betsy del Monte, Dallas, Texas
Liz Netherland, Dallas, Texas
Michael and Sharon Gibbons, Dallas, Texas
Theron and Margie Russell, Dallas, Texas
Larry and Gail Smith, Plano, Texas
J. Neil Phillips, Dallas, Texas