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Megan Morman’s practice-based artistic research takes a playful approach to its examination of the socio-economic conditions of art objects and communities. Her recent work uses game-like images that demand the viewer’s interaction and present a challenge to vision as the sense associated with objectivity. In Art Now, she will discuss Assume the Position, a transdisciplinary body of work developed during the two years of her recent M.F.A. at the University of Lethbridge. Working with diverse media including lenticular digital images, ‘magic eye’ pictures, fused plastic beads, and digital video, Assume the Position’s molecular maximalism queers time and space. Artist and audience are implicated in tensions between insider and outsider, visible and invisible, now and then. Unsettled performative images suggest playful approaches and new attitudes toward temporality as strategies for mediating contemporary anxious affects.

Megan Morman’s visual work has shown in solo exhibitions and festivals across Canada. Over the past twelve years she has worked with public galleries and artist-run centres including the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), the Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon), Artspace (Peterborough), and Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton). Morman grew up in rural Minnesota; before moving to Lethbridge in 2012, she spent fifteen years in Saskatoon working in communications and administration with arts and community-based nonprofits including AIDS Saskatoon and the Saskatoon Pride Festival. Morman has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Saskatchewan (2003), and an M.F.A. from the University of Lethbridge (2016). She currently works at the University of Lethbridge as Penny Gallery Coordinator for the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Image courtesy of the artist.