Born in Norway in an artistic family and educated in the U.S., von Morisse turns his acute insight rooted in the European tradition of intellectual irony to examination of American visual and popular culture. His imagery combines cartoon aesthetics with surrealism and pop-art, employing icons of mass culture and history of art for a playful exploration of the consumerist era. A conceptual painter with a Natural History background, his interests lie in exploring aspects of human psychology and how we interact with the world. His earlier body of work focused on the beauty of the Natural world celebrating his passion for the under water realms (see Works from the 1990s). Presently, his work focuses on the psychological interpretations of the landscape and our place in it. With his work End of a New Dawn, reviewed by Jonathan Goodman in Art in America (Oct. 2005, p. 180), Von Morisse was the Winner of the “Best New Contemporary Artist Award 2005” at the Kunstnerenes Hus Museum in Oslo, Norway.
