User:Morris Gruever Artist

Morris Gruever Born in Canada in 1964. Freelance Photographer / Artist. His first opportunity as a photographer came in Montreal in 1987.In 1991, Morris set up a portrait photography studio on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. It is there, in 1992, that he began a serious life of painting. His work, originally gestural drawings done in watercolor or ink, gradually evolved into thickly painted abstract-expressionistic works done in oil or acrylic.During this period of discovery, Gruever moved to a farm house in Nova Scotia. His artwork has been exhibited across Canada in cafes,restaurants,libraries,bookstores and galleries. It hangs on walls in Canada and the U.S.A.in private collections. Active member/exhibitor of the Atlantic Arts Alliance CoOperative in 1993-94.He considers his artistic contribution to the Halifax art scene, where between 1992 and 98 he was to create, display and sell his paintings at his street-side-stand on Spring Garden Road, as a direct approach in technique and presentation. He has also done stints of street-level-art on Queen Street West in the Toronto Entertainment District. In 2000,his visual art studio, GrueverVisuals,was launched. He settled in small town Northern Ontario, establishing himself to various private art collectors and becoming one of the centre points of the city's art scene as a restaurant muralist and street-level painter of scenes and society.Located in Sudbury's downtown core, Respect Is Burning Supperclub invited Gruever to become Artist in Residence in 2003 and purchased a series of his art to become permanent installations in a prominent section of this popular Italian restaurant. Since 2001, one of his oil paintings, as well as table artwork, has been used as decor inside Biscotti's Italian Restaurant on Bay Street in Toronto's Financial District. As an Expressionist seeking to externalize emotional experience or meaning rather than physical reality, Gruever presents the world from a subjective perspective, distorting or morphing it radically or casting experience into a type of poetic-visual language employing hyperbole, that is, deliberate exaggeration to express feelings that exceed the capacity of ordinary language.His main works include paintings,pen and ink drawings,watercolors and illustrations. Gruever's primary subject is the female body, and his art is marked by a blunt eroticism and fascination with city nightlife.He is consumed with focusing on expanding the frontiers of aesthetic experience in Canada and considered by many to be an underground avant-garde Artist known and recognized for producing works that are experimental in nature and representing a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo as far as the subject matter of Canadian art is concerned. The abrasive social or political edge of this quixotic individual is evident in the themes of his paintings.To this day,he continues producing and exhibiting his art. Having completed the first part of his erotic graphic series, Sexengines, (Sexengines Copyright 2010 by Morris Gruever),the artist is currently shifting directions into the storyboarding field and working on a new series of illustrations for an upcoming travelling exhibition scheduled for 2012....Stay tuned Art Lovers

Contact by E-mail:    MorrisGruever@Live.com

VISUAL ART SOLO EXHIBITIONS (1991-2011)

2010       YWCA Women of Distinction Gala Sudbury, On 2008-11     Respect Is Burning Supperclub Sudbury, On 2005        Mudshark Compact Discs/Tapes Sudbury, On 2003-4      Respect Is Burning Italian Restaurant  Sudbury, On 2001-11     Biscotti Italian Restaurant  Toronto, On 1999-00     Poetz Pantry Sudbury, On 1997        Bike Shop Cafe  Halifax, Nova Scotia 1996       Cafe Croissant Royal  Montreal, Quebec 1995       Vancouver Public Library  Vancouver, B.C. 1995        The Boiler Room (Collectibles) Nanaimo, B.C. 1995        LaQuena Coffee House  Vancouver, B.C. 1993        Atlantic Arts Alliance CoOperative  Halifax, Nova Scotia 1993       The Green Bean Coffee House  Halifax, Nova Scotia 1993       Red Herring Co-Op Bookstore  Halifax, Nova Scotia 1993       Ottawa Public Library  Ottawa, On 1992        The William Street Cafe  Ottawa, On 1992        The Ottawa Art Gallery   Ottawa, On 1991        Dan D'S  Sudbury, On

GRAPHIC SERIES 2012      Night Transit Collection (Sex Cartoon) 2011      Letter Head (Paintings) 2010      Sexengines (Erotic Graphic Series) 2007      Asphalt Juveniliac (Graphic Series) 2003      In Bolt Town (Color Illustrations) 1999      Subliminally Ill (E-Comic)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTFOLIOS (1987-1999)

1999      Make-Shift Recall (Various Locations In Canada) 1997-98   The Unmasked Surface (Halifax, N.S) 1993       Relationships In Patterns (West Indies) 1992-93   Outages (Halifax N.S) 1992 93    During The Night's Strange Hours (Halifax N.S.) 1991-92   Those Least Disguised (Cape Breton Island N.S) 1987-90    Urban Prompted (Montreal, Quebec) 1987-89   Personnages Montrealais (Montreal, Quebec) 1989      The Scooter Shoot (Montreal, Quebec)