Passage

Sky Above, Ground Beneath

oil on board

25x36

The Gallery Annex features Morgan Binkerd’s oil paintings, primarily landscapes made en plein air. Binkerd’s art-making practices explore the overlap of written and visual mediums. Many of the titles in Passage explore the sense of place in Binkerd’s work– from the seasons she painted through, to how it feels to navigate one’s self in the world, and meditations of spirituality discovered in the landscape.

Binkerd’s painting practice is centered around the experience of connection. It is a space for her to seek connection to herself, to the natural world, and to others. The landscape moves beyond representation of the physical world and becomes a place for searching, for the external world to become the lens through which our internal worlds are understood.

Breath

oil on wood

18x9.5

The title of the show, Passage, speaks to the transience of what it means to be in a place, specifically, how it feels to work from the landscape en plein air. Binkerd’s paintings are more concerned with process than a particular end result; they are either made in quick bursts of energy or over long periods of time. When Binkerd returns to a painting, she observes the ways the landscape has changed and seeks to embrace and include the changes by continuing the work by scraping or layering paint. In her personal and spiritual life, this becomes a means to meditate on the natural world and the passage of time. Once a painting is finished, it has become its own world, not necessarily a vessel to transport the viewer to a certain moment or specific place, but a world of its own that exists outside of linear time. 

The show can be viewed anytime during the month of October during Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The works can additionally be viewed and purchased on our online gallery.