Lauren Powell Presents:

~ Daniel Morowitz ~

New Mythologies on Paper

Elated to kick off the new year with a celebration of Queer culture by the dazzling Daniel Morowitz, who creates narrative figures elevating queer identity and centralizing queer people. Daniel’s drawing practice informs all of his paintings, and the resulting scenes rely strongly on a language he has created full of objects, gestures, positioning, and even colors in reference to the queer experience. His symbols and mythological elements maintain the historically hidden doublespeak of queer culture while creating a new code all his own, no longer veiled, revealed in image. The vibrant, dynamic scenes reveal something once thought of as monstrous as something desirable, weighing equally on the tension between sexuality, violence, and playfulness. While there has been progress in openness and representation, Queer culture often manufactures sex and sexuality as equaly deplorable and as the ultimate out of reach experience. Daniel wrestles with these conflicting feelings creating a fictional universe to contain and describe them.

Learn more about Keren’s work here: https://danielmorowitz.com/home.html .

Daniel Morowitz (b.1989) is a painter based in Jersey City, NJ with a Bachelor’s Degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and a Masters Degree from Montclair State University; Exhibitions’ include shows in Brooklyn, NY at the Buggy Factory, Trestle Gallery, La Bodega Gallery, Established Gallery. Jersey City, NJ at Curious Matter, Arthouse Productions, Novado Gallery. Hoboken, NJ at Proto Gallery, Manhattan, NYC at Field Projects Gallery, Here Arts Center, and co-curated “Line and Language” at the Watchung Arts Center and “Unnatural Intimacy” at SPRING/BREAK NYC 2020.