{"id":12543,"date":"2012-06-25T14:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2012-07-29T00:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T04:42:35","slug":"dan-morrison-moulded-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=12543","title":{"rendered":"Dan Morrison: Moulded Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dan Morrison, Old Nelson Quarry, from the series Molded Ground, 2012<\/p>\n

June 29 \u2013 July 28, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening reception: Friday June 29, 6-9 p.m.
\nGALLERY 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography<\/strong>
\n401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
\nToronto, ON M5V 3A8
\nT: 416.979.3941
\nE: stu@gallery44.org<\/a>
\nwww.gallery44.org<\/a>
\nHours: Tue-Sat\u00a0 11 \u2013 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Dan Morrison is the 2011 Verant Richards Scholarship Award’s Recipient<\/p>\n

In Molded Ground, photographs of the depleted floors of abandoned quarries are covered with a nutrient rich growing medium to create biologically sensitive plates. The photographs are then returned to the exact location where they were originally captured and exposed to microscopic fungal spores floating in the air. The resulting decomposition of these miniature environments alludes to the adaptive growth the artist has observed in these quarried sites, where without fungi the process of reclamation would not be possible.<\/p>\n

Dan Morrison<\/strong> is an OCAD U graduate, photographic artist, and highly skilled woodsmith working predominently with naturally occurring raw materials. He seeks to capture the extraordinary, and often unnoticed, facets of the southern Ontario forests where he grew up. His recent photographs reveal the adaptive qualities of trees and fungi as they survive in the unique landscapes along the Niagara Escarpment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 29 \u2013 July 28, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening reception: Friday June 29, 6-9 p.m.<\/p>\n

GALLERY 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography<\/strong> Vitrines Exhibition<\/p>\n

photographs of the depleted floors of abandoned quarries are covered with a nutrient rich growing medium to create biologically sensitive plates<\/p>\n

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