As a lifelong resident of the New Jersey shore, Morris Jurgensen left long enough to pursue a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Immersed in an environment of diverse styles and craft, Morris was free to explore a visual vocabulary that would go on to shape his art to this day.
   
When Morris Jurgensen returned to a home near the sea, where uncombed winter beaches fed a lifelong affinity for things lost and thrown away, it fostered the artist's Dadaist's sensibility. The artist’s eye was drawn to modern detritus and the forgotten stuff of childhood; these things accumulate history. Morris's art pulls together disparate objects that coalesce as painting/collage hybrids, or, boxed together in dioramas, allowing the viewer a peek into little worlds of psychological uncertainty. Orphaned baby dolls are also given a second chance at life, as golems, to carry out prophetic agendas.

Morris Jurgensen continues to follow his curious exploration of symbolism and allegory through found materials. 
   
Morris Jurgensen is also the experimental noise artist Magic Sound Butcher. MSB’s sound is created through layered field recordings, digital music programming, and live performance. Magic Sound Butcher’s sonic expression is at once cacophonous and troubling, as it is contemplative and dreamlike.