Deedee Morrison's Limestone and Aluminum Sculpture Installed at the IMA Sculpture Park, San Juan Islands, WA

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Charm is two-ton limestone and aluminum sculpture that is the most recent addition to the grounds of the IMA Sculpture Park in Roche Harbor.  Deedee Morrison's Charm series is a body of work that has strong angular shapes and intricately cutout overlays.  Blue Charm speaks to the contrasting dualities of the mechanical and organic, masculine and feminine, light and dark, strength and weakness found in life and in nature.  These particular sculptures give a sensation of diverging ideas bound by dissimilarity and yet the charms seem to rest alongside each other in harmony.

The creation of the Charm sculptures begin with a limestone rock that has been harvested from the quarry where Morrison works.  As with much of her work, the sculptor uses laser cutting processes with the metal that introduces light and a sense of weightlessness into the work.  Charm focuses on the correlation of contrasts - two very different elements that are inter-related and combined to create equilibrium.  Symbols, such as unevenly balanced objects joined ask the question, "What am I bound to?"  Morrison works with this quality of extreme contrasts through the creation of bulky sculptures made of metal and boulders that are intricately balanced with hand wrought chains to create a sense of the weight of fragility and balance.

Blue Charm now resides in this 19-acre microcosm of San Juan Island ecology that includes meandering forests, gently sloping meadows, freshwater and saltwater wetlands, and limestone outcroppings. 75,000 annual visitors enjoy the sculpture along trails and the Park's pond and inland ocean views throughout the reserve.

Deedee Morrison is an artist specializing in large public works made of aluminum, steel, limestone, lucite and light. Her sculptures have been exhibited and installed in permanent displays nationwide.  Morrison's sculpture studio is in a turn of the century steel foundry and limestone quarry and her work is heavily influenced by the setting as she juxtaposes the industrial with nature.  Over the years, Morrison has expanded her spatial scope and currently focuses on large-scale work, including site-specific works created for architectural, urban, or landscape settings.

For more information about Deedee Morrison: www.deedeemorrisonsculpture.com

Contact:

Morrison Studio
[email protected]
Wade Sand and Gravel Quarry
Birmingham, Alabama
Phone:  205.516.9976

SOURCE Morrison Studio