Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present a new edition with artist Morgan Blair, titled “What if we told you everything you think you thought about Wellness is wrong? Well, strap in, sweetie, because we’re about to take your relationship with yourself to a whole new level. Wellness is not a state of mind. Wellness is not a physical state. Wellness is not a product, or a hashtag, or a filter. Wellness is an immersive, community- centric, Conscious Oat(TM)-based experiment in experience; pushing the boundaries of what it means to simply, authentically, be. It’s about tapping into local, free-range energies, manifesting raw imagination, and transcending toxic vibes. It’s everything you never thought you knew you could always become. And it’s starts with a click.,”. Working with airbrush as well as sand and other textured mediums, Blair layers abstractions and rearranges material almost like a sculptor preparing work for 3D, with elements bending and blending onto the canvas as if coming to life. A signature to her work, long-winded, seemingly stream-of-consciousness titles accompany each of Blair’s paintings. Establishing an honest and playful connection to the artist’s character, the titles not only incorporate Blair’s sense of humor into the works, but they also allude to the absurdity of current events, politics, pop culture, and a media landscape that saturates our daily lives. 

As with much of Blair’s work, the edition explores the balance of control and freedom in her process, manifested in a mashing up of neon tones with low contrast color schemes; hard, taped-off edges with fuzzed out airbrush gradients; smooth, flat shapes with mottled patterns and rough, sandy textures; and wonky, irregular shapes mixed with more regular and recognizable forms. The resulting optical abstractions play on reality like a Magic Eye - absurdity is extruded from all corners of youtube; social media; advertising; consumer and celebrity culture; and found materials as well as lived experiences, and what you see depends on how you let the scene morph and distort before you.