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Website
www.erinmorrison.com
Relationship status
in a relationship
College / University
Memphis College of Art
Program
BFA
Graduation
10 December 2006
Member type
Artist
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Drawing, Painting
I am...
Erin Morrison

Education:
BFA

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN 2006
California College of Art, San Francisco, CA 2005-2006

Awards:

BFA with high destinction 2006; Memphis College of Art

Selected for New York Studio Program 2005/06; Memphis College of Art

Selected for mobility program at CCA 2006; Memphis College of Art

Portfolio Merit Grant 2003-06; Memphis College of Art

Recipient of Bess Ashner Memorial Scholarship 2004-06; Memphis College of Art

Solo Exhibitions:

2008
William Bennett Gallery; New York, NY, April

2007
Sean Bloemer Gallery; Memphis, TN, March

2006
Ameriprise Gallery; Germantown, TN, July
GMAC Gallery; Memphis, TN, June

2005
Recent Works; MAM Gallery, Memphis, TN, November

2004
The Complex Gallery; Memphis, TN, October

Group Exhibitions:

2007
Premier Opening of the WilliamBennett Gallery; New York, NY, September

2006
Horn Island Exhibition; Memphis College of Art, August
Memphis Originals Gallery; Memphis, TN, June
NO EXIT Gallery; Memphis, TN, May
Painting Exhibit; Lower Gallery, Memphis College of Art, March

2005
Annual Juried Exhibition MAM Gallery; Memphis, TN, April


Representation:

William Bennett Gallery
65 Greene St.
New York, NY 10012

William Bennett Gallery
212.965.8707

Residencies:

2004-2006
Horn Island Artist’s Retreat and Workshop, Horn Island,MS

Public Work:

2007 Commission for Clementine’s Café; Harrisonburg, VA.

2007 Assisted Kiva Kahl with costuming for Annual Marc Jacobs
Christmas Party in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center.

2006 Assisted Wagetchi Mutut with her exhibition, Sleeping Heads Lie, at the Power House Gallery; Memphis, TN

2006 Commission for B&B Contractors; Memphis, TN

2005 Critic for WKNO televised art auction; Memphis, TN

2003-2005 Assistant Curator of the Midtown Artist Market; Memphis,TN
About my artwork
The intention of my work is to take into perspective the differences between what we have labeled as “natural” and “unnatural”.

Most of the plant and animal life we see today has evolved to its present state due to changes in the environment. Lately, the primary focus of my work has been to depict this necessity of adaptation for survival. The forms (ranging in their complexity and size) are caught participating in inherited actions such as mating, consuming, breathing, or growing, and the finished piece is simply used as a photographic reference or record of these events.

This abstract play of nature-photography (and the valuable use of it’s history) has become a constant undertone in my work, and has encouraged a kind of foresight that allows a contingence between what has been studied to the fullest extent and what we have yet to see.
Artists I like
Anna Conway

Nigel Peak

John Casey

Wangchi Mutu

Tim Hawkinson

Kiki Smith

Josh Keys

Tiffany Bozic

Hilary Pecis

Ernesto Caivano

Interests
Seeking representation and group shows in the west coast or outside the states.
What exhibitions are good at the moment?
Since I've moved to Seattle I can't say that I've been to any really astounding exhibitions.

The last great show I saw was Anna Conways' solo show at Guild & Greyshkul

I also am loving the work the new FECAL FACE DOT GALLERY
in San Francisco is putting up.
The centre of the artworld is
New York, London, LA, Berlin, Beijing, my studio, nowhere and everywhere, another city

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www.williambennettgallery.com

Canyon II. (SOLD) May ART+AUCTION ad


Untitled(Sea) - SOLD (London)


Untitled (Mate) - SOLD (Harrisonburg, VA)


Untitled (Swamp) - SOLD (New York, NY)


Mountain Range (Part III.) - available for purchase at the William Bennett Gallery.


Exoskeleton II. - available for purchase at the William Bennett Gallery.

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At 12:13am on 17th July 2008, Karl Hobbs said…
Its beautiful
At 12:12am on 17th July 2008, Karl Hobbs said…
Thank you for showing me your work
At 9:16pm on 7th July 2008, Patricia Fernandez Miranda said…
Imitating to Bertorld Breth. "There's work that I like something, there is much work that I like, there is work to me and completely adsorb, these are yours."
Wonderful world!
At 4:24pm on 7th July 2008, Beppe said…
It looks for in the comments on the puraismo and you will find the texts in English. Hi Beppe
At 5:17am on 4th July 2008, Rogelio Manzo said…
excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by "gustonion" : )
At 8:51pm on 2nd July 2008, Rogelio Manzo said…
I love your 'love' for line... impressive...
At 11:05am on 2nd July 2008, Jan Lewin-Cadogan said…
Beautifully delicate, love your work, jan
At 7:38am on 2nd July 2008, mira cedar said…
hey, your website is a celebration to drawing. beautifull!
At 8:21pm on 1st July 2008, Ingrid Siliakus said…
Thank you for your comment. I just looked at your website and I am very intrigued and fascinated by your work! Ingrid.
At 7:19pm on 1st July 2008, Beppe said…
Dear Erin,
transmits You a summary of the text on the puraismo, excuse if the English is not very correct.
Hi Beppe

PURE-PAINTING or Puraismo 2006
Movement founded by the painter Giuseppe Sebastiano Devoti Turin that is set in the seam of the European cosalismo.
The artists of the “cosalismo visibilista” gain the look of the observer, but they look for - in
way more and more radical as soon as they evolve their project - to eliminate theirs
look from the picture. Their metaphysics of the to look, returns the world before each
look, also of that of the artist, introduces the archetype of the reality reinventata, that
aurorally of the dream in a vision dreamlike of the cosmogonico myth of the universe before
the man to phagocytize integrating it to his own desires and needs.
This world makes him look as it makes him look at the surface of an unknown planet:
the anxious beauty (unheimlich) of what has not been seen before never, this pure art
or Puraismo is born in the world of the artistic cosalismo and is asoggettiva. The triumph
of the appearance on the reality recognized that the cubism complete multiplying the points of
sight, the Puraismo pursues him/it projecting on a surface synchronic (coexistent) the
following moments of the process of visual identification of the composition. The faculty
innate to recognize and to interpret, the perceptive inheritance as legacy of ours lived, is the job of visual appropriation of the world since our birth
The world of the artists of this new pictorial tide, as they quote in theirs
apparent, it is a place in which there is no space for the familiarity, for the effusions, in which not there
it is had to feel to really ease is the place in which to make to emerge a feeling of extraneousness
toward the cultural continuity, the place of the existence every time REINVENTATA as utopia
of the genesis. A new aboriginal mythology, in which the metaphysical state of the reproduces him
feelings of the "it was Of the Dream."
Pure-Painting or Puraismo:
The Manifesto
"I DON'T SPEAK OF THINGS IN WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE"
Devoti Giuseppe Sebastiano

1. as in the classical Purism us artists of the Pure-Painting we want to express us through images introduced in a sober and rigorous expressiveness, whose forms are synthetic, in which the contours insert him the one in the others in a puzzle frontal what it brings to a composition to the abstraction.
2. the Pure-Painting, it is a tide new-purist that continues to affirm the plain surface through a definite colour, readable self-going , not neutral.
3. The treatment of the colour both a formal fact characterizes the magic relationship that the artist entertains with the subject of expressiveness the stylistic element that identifies a function mediated through a true emotional pathos.
4. our work has to be born from the precise analysis of the appearances abdicating the optic interpretation of the world.
5. it is necessary to leave that the things penetrate in us and they invade us.
6. it needs that our art takes form from the native thoughts of the movement cancelling from ours to act: the academic visual habits, the perceptive adjustments, and in general the pictorial tradition.
7. we don't deny the tradition, simply we don't intend to be a part it. The tradition stops the search, it pushes to crystallize on stereotypes already experimented and therefore discounted.
8. our world is the place in which there is no space for the familiarity, for the effusions, in which it is not owed us to feel to really ease, is the place in which it makes him emerge a feeling of extraneousness toward the cultural continuity, the place of the existence every time again invented as utopia of the genesis. The new aboriginal mythology, in which to reproduce the metaphysical state of the feelings of the "it was Of the Dream."
9. The photographic painting of the reality there is extraneous in how much the world of the third millennium already has a whole series of tools actions to use this form of realistic representation: the cinematography, the photo the advertising placard, the murales they develop very well this explanatory function.
10. It is necessary to propose a pure subjective vision, to paint a subject that takes form, in almost spontaneous and primordial way, under our hands.
11. It needs that our painting results as a native together "coacervo" of all of this that will be
12. We have to know how to evoke a divine force to return to the perception virgin of the origins, that not infiltrated by looks that they judge, they welcome or they throw back.
13. We firmly believe in the expressive liberty provided that exempted by the foolish overlap that they characterize the crepuscular way of painting.
14. Liberty is the status been born by the knowledge, this Socrates’ vision of the liberty according to which: "the sin is an unintentional consequence of the ignorance", has been taken back and modernized toward a new community thought of liberty. In this perspective we set there in the position to teach to observe over the simple action to see the reality.
15. The indications of this manifesto are not to imposes bridles but an ethical that it proposes of behaviour that points out the direction not the road.
16. Our art won't be decadent, banal and academic therefore it is PURE PAINTING
 
 

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