JOE MORZUCH

Joe Morzuch is an observational painter currently residing in Starkville, MS.  In addition to his studio work, which deals primarily with the still life and self-portrait, he is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University.  In 2006 he received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.  He has taught at the college level for nearly 20 years, teaching courses in foundations, drawing, and painting.  His work has been exhibited nation-wide and abroad.     “I am interested in the visual and communicative potential of objects that are cast off, discarded, and over-looked.  Inherent to still life is an engagement with the mundane and domestic, as well as the notion of an arrested visual experience.  These subjects, their intrinsic intimacy, and working from life are rich with pictorial and conceptual possibilities.