Morgan T. Paine, Message Center Diptych from the April 16th Series, 2008
Gloss acrylic medium on galvanized metal and chalkboard, with wooden frame, hardware and paint brushes, 20 x 50 in. Photo courtesy of Ed Comet.
Making A Clear Mark, 1997 - 2025
Morgan T. Paine
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.
