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Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present our first print edition with artist Morgan Blair, titled Greetings! My name is Wayne Newton from Massachusetts I actually observed my young, lonely wife has been viewing your website on my laptop and i guess she likes your piece of work, I'm also impressed and amazed to have seen your various works too.You are doing a great job. I would like to receive further information about your piece of work and what inspires you. I am very much interested in the purchase of your pieces to surprise my wife. Again they would be for my wife who loves to be surprised. I know my wife will jump out of her skin when she sees your piece of work. I know you’re probably think this is a scam, but I assume you I am not and would never do it. Again this is about my wife I think she is cheating me. I am a business man, as well as an avid art fan, maker, thinker, and last but not least Lover. Every day I live in a waking nightmare while not having one of your various impressive works that my wife Courtney viewed on my Apple laptop. I am very wealthy please help Courtney will leave me if I do not acquiring such creative artworks. We share a dog. Kindly confirm the availability of your impressive pieces for immediate sales between 2k-6k USD. Thanks and best regards.

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.