JP Morrison Lans

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.


Artist Statement

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 colored pencil, she creates translucent skin. The addition of underpainting and encaustic then allows 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.


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