Rebecca Jo Morales

"Morales's drawings are of botanical subjects – plants, grasses, lichens, mosses, molds, fungi, sometimes with flower-like spores sprouting – surmounting fragmented images of long twisted braids of air or strange knitted objects," wrote Gary Garrels in the exhibition catalogue: Fifteen LA Artists; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2007.

He continues, "The botanical subjects are field sames and photographs from the forests of California, the Pacific Northwest, Vermont and Maine."

"There's also an odd, photographic quality to Morales' mesmerizing works, which combine watercolor gouache, pastel and ink in ways that make light look liquid, sensuous, stirring.

[3] Roadrunner (1996), in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is painted in gouache and watercolor on vellum.

Morales' non-objective paintings can be best described as "fantastically crafted abstractions that get your imagination going in so many directions that you start to wonder why they are neither maddening nor frustrating but strangely serene in their own offbeat sensitive way.