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SHRINE is excited to announce Ike Morgan: The Hospital Years, an exhibition of early drawings and paintings by the Texas self-taught artist, Ike E. Morgan (b. 1958). Curated by Matthew Higgs, director of White Columns, the show will be an in-depth look at the artwork Ike Morgan created in secrecy shortly after being admitted to the Austin State Hospital for severe schizophrenia, where he resided from age 17 through 41.

With no intention of becoming an artist, Ike Morgan began using cardboard, found paper, crayons and anything else that could be scavenged at the hospital to create. This early …