JP Morrison Lans’ art practice is rooted in diaristic mythology that chronicles the emotional body—intimacy, desire, transformation and identity through a combination of figurative realism and abstraction. Areas of focus include her motherhood, womanhood and the threshold between anatomy and soul. Through layers of color pencil she creates translucent skin. The addition of underpainting and encaustic then allow her to massage and sculpt symbolic forms into bas-relief around her drawing, creating membranes and animistic objects which serve as expressions of the subject's emotional escapades.
Morrison Lans earned her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2007 and has exhibited widely, currently holding gallery representation in San Francisco, Santa Fe, Gold Coast Australia and Tulsa. Her work is held in the public collections of NBC Bank (Oklahoma) and Bundaberg Regional Gallery (Australia) and she has created immersive installations for AHHA Tulsa, Living Arts, and OVAC. She has attended residencies with The School of Visual Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Truro Art Center, and Lazaretto Island, Spain. She and her child can typically be found experimenting with encaustic and lego, respectively, from their home studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
‘Horror vacui’: The uncanny and gorgeous work of JP Morrison Lans
Morrison Lans Summons the ungraspable beneath the everyday, saturating the mundane with the sensual
A deep conversation with Jeff Krisman about the artists process, inspiration and life.
This immersive exhibit treats visitors to an interactive, multimedia, art adventure.
JP and Nicci Arnold discuss their work for the AHB's online exhibition Virtual Realism
Music Video by Annie Ellicott and Mark Kuykendall, inside JP's exhibition Wundrian
Join the former Oklahoma Visual Artists' Coalition Director for this video review of JP's New Genre Festival exhibition
Forty-six of today's most important & influential writers combine with artists to create a fictional take on the 46th state.
JP Morrison Lans