About the new work 

This new series will debut in November 2025. The exhibition To Where Our Bodies Go, Spring 2025, included this first offering. 

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Triumph and ecstasy characterize Andrew Morrow’s figurative paintings. Grounded in principles of stewardship and accountability, his practice exists at the intersection of relationality and art. Andrew Morrow starts with photography with live sittings in the studio. The imagery is then processed through AI. Prompted with references to classical painters like Tiepolo, the results often fragment, conflate, or confuse anatomy and objects. Rather than avoid these distortions into the uncanny, Morrow leans into them. The process moves between physical presence and digital mediation, reflecting his interest in transformation, surprise, and the tension between who controls our digital future and our organic imagination.

Morrow sees transformation not as a way to distance himself from the work, but as a way to invite surprise. By introducing an external system that interrupts his control, he creates space for unexpected visual and conceptual possibilities. He interprets these altered images through a slow, intentional painting process, using traditional techniques shaped by his study of (Western) classical painting methodologies.

While the final compositions might suggest a form of David Cronenberg-style body horror, Morrow resists that interpretation. The tangled limbs, ambiguous anatomy, and expressive distortions are not meant to shock, but to explore a kind of beauty that lies outside fixed definitions of the body. For Morrow, these figures feel natural, even elegant—less confined than the idealized portrait, and more honest in their refusal to define the self too neatly.

 
Morrow is an award-winning, contemporary Canadian artist. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Queen’s University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Ottawa. Morrow’s work has been widely exhibited and reviewed throughout Canada and abroad. In addition to his practice as an artist, Morrow is a professor in painting and drawing at the University of Ottawa, and a founding member of the Ottawa Arts Council Young Artist Award Committee. Morrow lives in Chelsea, QC, with his wife and two sons.