Jim Morphesis

James “Jim” Morphesis (born 1948) is an American painter born to Greek American, parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “In art school and immediately after, he made Minimalist work occasionally employing a crucifix form.”

In 2012, Michael Duncan, independent art curator and critic wrote,“Morphesis’s breakthrough actually came at the end of the 1970s with his use of more overt religious and figurative imagery.” “As strong examples of Los Angeles Neo-Expressionism, Morphesis’s works of the 1980s rank alongside those of Carlos Almaraz, David Amico, Gronk, Roger Herman, Margaret Nielson, and Joyce Trieman. Like those artists, Morphesis has used painting as a vehicle for dramatic personal statements. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Oakland Museum of California, California Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida Phoenix Art Museum, Colorado Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, Missouri Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California San Antonio Museum of Art, California

Awards

City of Pasadena Arts and Culture III Grant, with Pasadena Museum of California Art Young Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, 1983 California Small Images Exhibition Purchase Award, California State University, Los Angeles, California, 1971 Nathan Margolis Memorial Award for Painting, Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1970

Personal life Jim Morphesis currently resides and works in Los Angeles, California.