Installation view

Installation view 

Installation view 

Installation view 

Installation view 

Installation view 

Installation view 

ANDRE VON MORISSE

Madonna & Child, 2017

oil on canvas

30h x 22w in
76.20h x 55.88w cm

AVM085

ANDRE VON MORISSE

Bjorn & The Hobbit (diptych), 2018

oil on canvas

2 paintings: in black & white 26 x 26 inches, in color 10 x 10 inches

AVM083

ANDRE VON MORISSE

Bjorn with cigarette, 2018

oil on canvas

12h x 14w in
30.48h x 35.56w cm

AVM087

ANDRE VON MORISSE

Going to the lake, 2018

oil on canvas

9.13h x 9.13w in
23.18h x 23.18w cm

AVM088

ANDRE VON MORISSE

In the Forrest, 2018

oil on canvas

55h x 39w in
139.70h x 99.06w cm

AVM089

ANDRE VON MORISSE

In the Park (diptych), 2018

oil on canvas

2 paintings (diptych) : larger 30 x 22 inches; small one is 14 x 12 inches

AVM079

ANDRE VON MORISSE

In the Park (pink), 2018

oil on canvas

30h x 22w in
76.20h x 55.88w cm

AVM082

ANDRE VON MORISSE

In the park (dark grey), 2018

oil on canvas

30h x 22w in
76.20h x 55.88w cm

AVM081

ANDRE VON MORISSE

Christmas, 2018

oil on canvas

54h x 36w in
137.16h x 91.44w cm

AVM084

Installation view, each paiting 18 x 18 inches, 2018

ANDRE VON MORISSE

Winter Scene with Snow in Norway, 2018

oil on canvas

16h x 16w in
40.64h x 40.64w cm

AVM086

ANDRE VON MORISSE

THE YOUNG NORWEGIANS, PART I

May 3-27, 2018

Growing up the son of rock legend Bjorn Morisse, frontman of The Young Norwegians, has provided painter Andre von Morisse with a treasure trove of imagery surrounding his bohemian parents from which to construct a narrative investigation of his much mediated childhood. The present show, which includes a cherubic image of the young painter, announces itself as Part One of what may prove to be an epic cycle. von Morisse is the husband of gallery proprietor Silas von Morisse. - David Cohen (ArtCritical, May 6, 2018)

 

ANDRE VON MORISSE, THE YOUNG NORWEGIANS, PART 1,  explores the artist’s memories of his childhood in Norway where he grew up in the late 1960’s with his mother Aud and his father Bjorn Morisse (1944-2006) who created in 1965 the famous Folk Band, The Young Norwegians. The band became a cultural phenomenon at the time and the first folk group that paved the way to the introduction of the 60’s into Norway. The Young Norwegians inspired an entire future generation of musicians. The exhibition features a sound installation with the songs from The Young Norwegians and a dozen of oil on canvas paintings based on old family black and white photographs mostly taken by Bjorn Morisse himself. Von Morisse re-interpretated his father’s photographs in paint, changing values, color and scale, creating a painterly reality of the past where memories fade in and out.

 

Andre Von Morisse is a conceptual painter, interested in exploring aspects of human psychology and how we interact with the world. With his work End of a New Dawn, reviewed by Jonathan Goodman in Art in America (Oct. 2005, p.180), he won the Best New Contemporary Artists Award 2005 at the Kunstnerenes Hus Museum in Oslo, Norway. Andre von Morisse was born in Oslo, Norway in 1966 and came to America in 1978. In 1990, he graduated cum laude from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and moved to New York in 1991. His works were featured in many group shows in galleries and museums in the US, and he had solo exhibitions with McKenzie Fine Art (2005 & 2003), and James Graham and Sons (2000, 1997) in New York, NY. Reviewed in the Art News (2007), Art in America (2005), New York Magazine (2003), Artnet (2000), and Review (1997), his art has also been often featured by Norway’s main dailies Aftenposten and VG, Kunst artmagazine (2013), as well as Norwegian-American newspaper, Norway Times. Von Morisse’s paintings are held in prominent private and corporate collections in the US.

 

About THE YOUNG NORWEGIANS
In 1965, Bjorn Morisse created his band The Young Norwegians with Bjørn "Lillebjørn" Falk Nilsen. The nickname LilleBjorn Nielsen came about because Bjorn Morisse was older and taller than Bjorn Nilsen hence they were known as StoreBjorn and LillleBjorn (Big Bjorn and Little Bjorn). Bjorn Morisse was the songwriter and vocalist of the band and LilleBjorn Nielsen was the guitar and banjo player. Later on, the band added Steinar Ofsdal who played several instruments including the flute.  The Young Norwegians created two albums and four singles during their short career. Bjørn Morisse wrote the single "Stille døgn i Clichy" which was a translation of Country Joe MCDonald's song of the same name, inspired by the author Henry Millers writings.The single was declared X-rated but spent six weeks on the VG-list, Norway's top music list. Two of Norway's female artist at the time did choir and Øystein Sunde did instruments. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

Press

ANDRE VON MORISSE End of a New Dawn; MEER 23 May 2023
L'Esprit du Monde interviews ANDRE VON MORISSE Directed by Evelyne Jousset
ARTSY Andre von Morisse The Young Norwegians, Part 1
05/03/2018
ARTCRITICAL ANDRE VON MORISSE THE YOUNG NORWEGIANS, PART 1
May 3 - May 27, 2018
TWO COATS OF PAINT Selected Gallery Guide May 2018
FREUD QUOTES, Andre Von Morisse: Pink Freud & The Pleasant Horizon
THE VIENNA PSYCHOANALYST, Leading Article by ANDRE VON MORISSE
ARTSY Editorial | Sigmund Freud Stars in Andre von Morisse's Pop Paintings, by Ari Spool
EXHIBITION  NEST, Andre von Morisse "Pink Freud & The Pleasant Horizon"
EXHIBITION NEST, Andre von Morisse "Pink Freud & The Pleasant Horizon"
NY ART BEAT Andre von Morisse "Pink Freud and The Pleasant Horizon"
New York Times T Magazine, Primer | An Art Weekend in Bushwick, by Valeria Safronova, May 29, 2014 (on ART 3 Gallery’s Inaugural Exhibition)
May 30, 2014

Primer | An Art Weekend in Bushwick

 

BLOUIN Lifestyles ANDRE VON MORISSE January 2014
January 2014
KUNST nummer 4, Andre von Morisse Koseptmaleren, August 2013
KUNST nummer 4, Andre von Morisse Konseptmaleren, August 2013 by Anne Marit Muri
LUXE IMMO No 34, MAY - JUNE 2013, ANDRE VON MORISSE