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Exhibition Detail Tabitha Morris Predacious Panopticon Happy Lion 963 Chung King Road Los Angeles, CA 90012 July 12th - August 9th
	Tabitha Morris, Cobra Lilies, 2008, Watercolor & gouache on paper © Courtesy the Artist & Happy Lion Gallery

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WEBSITE:

http://www.thehappylion.com/

NEIGHBORHOOD:

chinatown

EMAIL:

lexi@thehappylion.com

PHONE:

213.625.1360

OPEN HOURS:

Wed-Sat 12-6

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The Happy Lion is pleased to present Predacious Panopticon, the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Tabitha Morris. Consisting of meticulously rendered watercolors, Morris explores a world where humans and nature are inexplicably linked in a danse macabre. The large scale works form a panorama in which epic narrative unfolds as carnivorous plants and their female targets languish and in a world rife with beauty and decay.

Amidst these hallucinatory landscapes, a reoccurring cast of characters find themselves being lured and trapped by the dense and dangerous vegetation, to be consumed and re-assembled and finally re-birthed under an ominous sky. Simultaneously seductive and repulsive, this is a world in which order is broken down and a dark sexuality is revealed.

Tabitha Morris was born in Iowa in 1979. She received her BFA at the University of Kansas and an MFA in painting and printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives and works in Los Angeles. This is the artist’s first show with The Happy Lion.

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