With his work End of a New Dawn, Von Morisse was the Winner of the “Best New Contemporary Artists Award 2005” at the Kunstnerenes Hus Museum in Oslo, Norway were the works were exhibited. That same year, The 9 silver gelatin prints (43 x 43 in.) were  exhibited in New York at Mckenzie Fine Art. The works received critical acclaim and were  reviewed in Art in America in October 2005, “Andre von Morisse at McKenzie”, by Jonathan Goodman, p.180, illus.

End of a New Dawn explores the relationship between painting and photography “reversing" the traditional roles of the two mediums by using paintings as the starting point for an elaborate and intricate photographic process. The large-scale photographs use paintings invented and made by von Morisse as the subject matter of the photographs. The 9 paintings, in black and white, depict witty, time scrambling visions of sci-fi future stocked with technologies of the recent past. The artist painted then photographed the paintings, enlarging the images so that they take on a soft focus. That process seems to undermine accuracy and truth of photography. The title End of a New Dawn refers with nostalgia to the immense technological promises of the 60’s & the 70’s, before they dissipated into the ambiguities of the information age.