www.erinmorrison.com

Website

http://www.erinmorrison.com

Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

University of California, Los Angeles

Program

MFA Candidate / BFA Memphis College of Art

Graduation

December 20, 2006

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Drawing, Painting

I am...

E R I N M O R R I S O N
WWW.ERINMORRISON.COM

E D U C A T I O N
2011 MFA Candidate \ University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2006 BFA \ Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

H O N O R S
Oxbow Summer Residency Program Centennial Grant recipient
BFA with high distinction 2006, Memphis College of Art
Selection for New York Studio Program ‘05/‘06, Memphis College of Art
Selection for Mobility Program at CCA 2006, Memphis College of Art

R E S I D E N C I E S
Oxbow Summer Residency Program; Saugatuck, MI 06.27.10-07.10.10
Horn Island Artist’s Retreat and Workshop; Horn Island, MS ‘04-06

S E L E C T E X H I B I T I O N S
2011
FLIGHTS: A two part exhibition (solo); Actual Pain, Seattle, WA 06.09.11 \ Aisle 1 Gallery, St. Louis, MO (07-08.11)
Show Me Your Tax Bracket; Aisle 1 Gallery, curators: Bryan Walsh + Danielle Spradley, St. Louis, MO (03-04.’11)
2010
The Power of Selection Part II; Western Exhibitions, curator Ryan Travis Christian, Chicago, IL (11 - 12.’10)
Summer Introductions, SAM Gallery, curator Barbara Shaiman, Seattle, WA (07 – 08.’10)
New American Landscape; Las Manos Gallery, curators: David Downs + Michelle Peterson-Albandoz, Chicago, IL (05 - 06.’10)
Patterns of Impermanence (solo); Monarch Contemporary, Seattle, WA (05. - 06.’10)
Higher Ed;The OK Hotel, curator Eric Swangstu, Seattle, WA (01 - 02.’10)
2009
Erin Morrison + Cynthia Camlin; Monarch Contemporary, Seattle, WA (11 – 12.’09)
SOIL Annual Art Auction; Lawrimore Project, organized by Randy Wood, Seattle, WA (10.’09)
Erin Morrison: New Paintings + Prints (solo); William Bennett Gallery, New York, NY (09 - 10.’09)
Horn Island Alumni Reflect and Remember 1985-2009; MCA "On The Street" Gallery, Memphis, TN (08 -09.’09)
Headwaters of Industry; VERMILLION, Seattle, WA (04 – 05.’09)
2008
New American Landscapes (solo); William Bennett Gallery, New York, NY (11 - 12.’08)
West, Wester, Westest!; FECAL FACE DOT GALLERY, curator Ryan Travis Christian, San Francisco, CA (10 - 11.’08)
Erin Morrison: New Works (solo), William Bennett Gallery New York, NY (04 – 05.’08)
2007
Premier Opening; William Bennett Gallery, New York, NY (09 - 10.’07)
Erin Morrison (solo); Sean Bloemer Gallery, Memphis, TN (03 – 04.’07)
BFA Annual Exhibition; Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN (09 – 10.’06)
2006
Horn Island Exhibition 22; Memphis College of Art Memphis, TN (08 – 09.’06)
Memphis Originals Gallery; Memphis, TN (06 – 07.’06)
NO EXIT Gallery; Memphis, TN (05 – 06.’06)
New Paintings; Lower Gallery at Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN (03 – 04.’06)

B I B L I O G R A P H Y
Papergrafen : vol I \ quarterly publication by Supervideografen \ release TBA
New American Landscapes \ book by Sprocket box Entertainment \ Chicago, IL USA \ 09.24.09
Viva la Network \ Claudia Sandoval \ Brooklyn, NY USA \ 09.24.09
Sixth Finch \ Fall issue \ Rob MacDonald \ USA \ 09.09
TITLE Magazine \ issue 3 \ Ryan Miranda \ Orange County, CA USA \ 05.25.09
BOOOOOOOM! \ Jeff Hamada \ Vancouver, BC CA \ 05.25.09
WWW.FECALFACE.COM \ Mini Interview \ Ryan Travis Christian \ San Francisco, CA USA \ 04.24.09
The Stranger \ Visual Art Listing \ Jen Graves \ Seattle, WA USA \ 04.23.09
Culturepublic \ Derek Powazek \ USA \ 04.04.09
EMPTY Magazine \ issue 15 \ AU \ 03.09
MyArtSpace \ ArtSpace Talk \ Brian Sherwin \ USA \ 02.07.09
Spray Graphic \ Sprayblog \ Chuck Banaszewski \ USA \ 11.03.08
ART+AUCTION \ USA \ 05.08
SOHO Journal \ SohoJournal.com \ John Coakley \ Memphis, TN USA \ 04.26.08


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About my artwork

The act of painting is self-reflective in nature. Raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, my immediate environment was in a regular state of flux and entirely consumer-driven. Hastiness in project completion always compromising dependability, storefronts would open and were promptly replaced with new ones, cellular towers erected, and homes fabricated with the façade of stability employing the cheapest labor possible.
My position as an Admission Counselor for Cornish College of the Arts requires that I travel to various parts of Washington state. Recognizing that many of these pass-through towns shared a similar strip mall landscape to that of Little Rock, I often left with an overwhelming feeling of displacement and vulnerability. As a result, for the past three years my work has been devoted to a personal reflection of landscape through the use of mixed wet and dry media on paper. Reliant on the cyclical nature of time, the landscape holds the promise of building and the compromise of erosion. Continually dotted by our patterns of impermanent, decorative structures, an affirmation of spectacle is renewed. As a painter I am particularly interested in the expansive qualities of these tropes.

Landscape interpretation, dependent on the gaze of the viewer, offers a substitution of authorship that I often attempt to address in the development of a piece. Scale, human presence, and the stir of unforeseen struggle are elements also regularly encountered in the development of these portraits.

Artists I like

Marcel Dzama

Michael Raedecker

Anna Conway

Nigel Peak

John Casey

Wangchi Mutu

Tim Hawkinson

Kiki Smith

Dana Schutz

Josh Keys

Tiffany Bozic

Hilary Pecis

Ernesto Caivano

Jules De Balincourt

Interests

Seeking representation and group shows outside of New York or the states.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

- hopefully mine!
"Headwaters of Industry" - Sarah Kavage + Erin Morrison

Vermillion Gallery - Seattle, WA
04.09.09 - 05.10.09

Centre of the artworld:

LA