Location: Wasmer Art Gallery
Dates: August 29–September 25, 2025
Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, August 28, 2025, 5–7pm
Making A Clear Mark: 1997 to 2025 is a selected survey of paintings by Morgan T. Paine, founding Art Program faculty member and Associate Professor of Art at Florida Gulf Coast University. Featuring his Life Painting with Drawing (1977 to date), the exhibition also includes examples of both his layered and spanned works of acrylic gel medium on a variety of supports, found and constructed. Paine's work is grounded in the belief that painting is both a physical and conceptual activity. His life-long effort is to get to the essence of painting, using the foundational element of all acrylic paint, a nearly colorless binder called gel acrylic medium.
Sponsored by Gene and Lee Seidler, the Wasmer Endowment, WGCU Public Media, and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
After nearly three decades at FGCU, Morgan T. Paine, the visionary who built the university’s art program from six students to a thriving creative community—retires this August.
Read Tom Hall's essay on Morgan T. Paine by following this link
To read our exhibition brochure for
Making A Clear Mark, 1997 - 2025
Morgan T. Paine
with essay by Helen Lessick
