Artists Evan Morse
WINTER 2023 RESIDENT · JAN – APR
Evan Morse
Sculpture · Newton, MA
Evan Morse is an award-winning sculptor based in Newton, Massachusetts, whose work reworks classical traditions to comment on, and poke fun at, contemporary life. He joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Winter 2023 session.
Background
Morse earned his MFA from Boston University and his BA from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and has studied traditional sculpture techniques in Italy, including at Studio Arts College International in Florence.
About the work
Working in marble, terra cotta and plaster with traditional, largely hand-based methods, Morse borrows the forms of ancient and Renaissance sculpture and fills them with modern subjects. In one well-known piece, he reimagines the classical Greek athlete scraping oil from his body, swapping the ancient tool for a stick of deodorant. His reliefs have depicted a garbage truck, a supermarket checkout and the politics of clean drinking water, quietly asking what our own era will leave behind.
Selected highlights
Dexter Jones Award, National Sculpture Society (2023), for outstanding bas-relief sculpture
Featured in BU College of Fine Arts Magazine (2021)
Exhibited with ArtsWorcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
