John Morris biography

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john morris

Born in New York City, 1965
Studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Lives and works in Queens, New York

"John Morris practices what critic Alan Weiss calls a 'poetics of the ad infinitum,' an ecstatic but precise doodling...a Babel of urgently decorative shapes that...simultaneously empty and replenish ideas about writing and ciphering. The drawings are seductively pictorial, spinning out biomorphic minutiae and galactic ellipses...into one giddy metaphor for order within chaos."
--Frances Richard, Artforum, December 2002

Selected Recent Exhibitions

2004	Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003	Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California Works on Paper: A Fifth Anniversary Show, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico Fine Lines: From the Collection of Wynn Kramarksy, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California Microcosm/Macrocosm, Axel Raben Gallery, New York, New York
2002	D'Amelio Terras, New York The Fall Line: Intuition and Necessity in Contemporary Abstract Drawing, Open Studios Press Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Art on Paper 2002, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York

Selected Public Collections

Bohen Foundation, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas

Queens Museum of Art, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York