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Victoria Morton<br><em>Sistrum</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on canvas<br>78 3/4 x 63 inches / 200 x 160 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Iris</em>, 2024<br>Oil on canvas<br>78 3/4 x 70 7/8 inches / 200 x 180 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Cycles</em>, 2024<br>Oil on linen<br>82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Vetrina</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>24 x 35 7/8 inches / 61 x 91.1 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Blushes</em>, 2024<br>Oil on linen<br>82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Development A</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>70 7/8 x 74 3/4 inches / 180 x 190 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Filtering - After MCE</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Here I come</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>66 1/2 x 44 1/8 inches / 168.9 x 112.1 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Winter Solstice</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>66 1/8 x 44 1/4 inches / 168 x 112.5 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Kiosk</em>, 2024<br>Oil on canvas<br>27 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches / 69.8 x 50.2 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Cartoline</em>, 2024<br>Oil on linen<br>59 x 39 3/8 inches / 149.9 x 100 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Canopy</em>, 2024<br>Oil on collaged canvas<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Blind Spot</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>On the Terrace</em>, 2024<br>Oil on collaged canvas<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Passages</em>, 2024<br>Oil on canvas<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Cabinet</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Ventilatore</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic on linen<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Over Hearing</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Departure</em>, 2024<br>Oil on canvas<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Shield</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Part Devision</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Ovation</em>, 2024<br>Oil on linen<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Window Dressing</em>, 2024<br>Oil on canvas<br>22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Hooks</em>, 2024<br>Acrylic and oil on linen<br>14 1/8 x 10 inches / 35.9 x 25.4 cm

Victoria Morton<br><em>Lashes</em>, 2024<br>Oil on canvas<br>17 7/8 x 16 1/8 inches / 45.4 x 41 cm

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June 7-July 20, 2024

Jessica Silverman is pleased to announce Victoria Morton’s “Vetrina,” the artist’s first solo presentation in San Francisco, June 7 to July 20, 2024. The show features a group of 26 new paintings made over the past year by one of Scotland’s foremost painters. The exhibition is inspired by the artist’s research at cultural sites in Bologna, including the city’s archeological museum, the Oratorio di Santa Cecilia, and Museo Della Specola—a historical observatory and astronomy museum. A series of small canvases will be installed on the gallery’s window-front wall, leading to a cycle of large-scale paintings in the main space to create a fluid and rhythmic ensemble that alludes to the painter’s simultaneous practice as a musician.

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Victoria Morton
Sistrum, 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
78 3/4 x 63 inches / 200 x 160 cm

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Victoria Morton
Iris, 2024
Oil on canvas
78 3/4 x 70 7/8 inches / 200 x 180 cm

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Victoria Morton
Cycles, 2024
Oil on linen
82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

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Victoria Morton
Sistrum, 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
78 3/4 x 63 inches / 200 x 160 cm

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Victoria Morton
Iris, 2024
Oil on canvas
78 3/4 x 70 7/8 inches / 200 x 180 cm

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Victoria Morton
Cycles, 2024
Oil on linen
82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

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Morton’s immersive paintings bend perception between the physical and the psychic. Seemingly abstract compositions combine pools of color with gestural passages that flirt with figuration, engaging the viewer in a game of deciphering what one sees and what one imagines. In Cycles (2024), purple, pink, and blue atmospheric forms spectacularly bathe a bright yellow biomorphic object and hard-edge geometric elements.

Victoria Morton
Vetrina, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
24 x 35 7/8 inches / 61 x 91.1 cm

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Victoria Morton
Blushes, 2024
Oil on linen
82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

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Victoria Morton
Development A, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
70 7/8 x 74 3/4 inches / 180 x 190 cm

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Victoria Morton
Filtering - After MCE, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

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Victoria Morton
Blushes, 2024
Oil on linen
82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

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Victoria Morton
Development A, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
70 7/8 x 74 3/4 inches / 180 x 190 cm

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Victoria Morton
Filtering - After MCE, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
82 5/8 x 66 7/8 inches / 209.9 x 169.9 cm

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Development A (2024) draws on Renaissance frescoes in the Oratorio di Santa Cecilia. Prisms of color and calligraphic linework unite and clash in a dramatic composition that alludes to narrative painting, landscape, and interior spaces. Figurative silhouettes and specters of language harmoniously emerge and retreat across the canvas. Through a choreographed push and pull in mark-making, Morton holds viewers in suspense.

Victoria Morton
Here I come, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
66 1/2 x 44 1/8 inches / 168.9 x 112.1 cm

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Victoria Morton
Winter Solstice, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
66 1/8 x 44 1/4 inches / 168 x 112.5 cm

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Victoria Morton
Kiosk, 2024
Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches / 69.8 x 50.2 cm

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Victoria Morton
Cartoline, 2024
Oil on linen
59 x 39 3/8 inches / 149.9 x 100 cm

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Victoria Morton
Canopy, 2024
Oil on collaged canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Kiosk, 2024
Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches / 69.8 x 50.2 cm

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Victoria Morton
Cartoline, 2024
Oil on linen
59 x 39 3/8 inches / 149.9 x 100 cm

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Victoria Morton
Canopy, 2024
Oil on collaged canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Painting from her photographic documentation of the fresco cycles and their surrounding tourist merchandise, Cartoline (2024) depicts a looser interpretation of this site. Morton introduces another layer of critical distance by including surfaces and reflections inherent to the photographs themselves. Expanding and abstracting the composition, this playful drafting of a defined space hovers at the edge of definition.

Victoria Morton
Blind Spot, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
On the Terrace, 2024
Oil on collaged canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Passages, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Blind Spot, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
On the Terrace, 2024
Oil on collaged canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Passages, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Cabinet, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Ventilatore, 2024
Acrylic on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Over Hearing, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Departure, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Shield, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Over Hearing, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Departure, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Shield, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Morton’s kinetic and radiating compositions are seductive propositions, inviting the viewer to explore conditions of visuality and experience states of paradox, uncertainty, and wonderment.

Victoria Morton
Part Devision, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Ovation, 2024
Oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Window Dressing, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Part Devision, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Ovation, 2024
Oil on linen
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Window Dressing, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 16 1/8 inches / 55.9 x 41 cm

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Victoria Morton
Hooks, 2024
Acrylic and oil on linen
14 1/8 x 10 inches / 35.9 x 25.4 cm

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Victoria Morton
Lashes, 2024
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 x 16 1/8 inches / 45.4 x 41 cm

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ARTIST BIO

Victoria Morton (b. 1971, Glasgow, Scotland) obtained an MFA from Glasgow School of Art following her BA in Fine Art Painting. Morton’s work is in numerous public collections including SFMOMA, San Francisco; The Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; and Royal College of Music Museum, London, UK. She has had solo exhibitions at Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Boston, MA; Nino Mier, Los Angeles; The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow; and Sadie Coles HQ, London; amongst others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Corn Hall, England; The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Scotland and Victoria Miro Gallery, London. She lives and works between Glasgow, Scotland and Fossombrone, Italy. Morton is represented by The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, and Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK.