Olivia Tripp Morrow
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Altered  Blanket  Series (2018-19)

This series of works began with a collection of hundreds of tightly-cropped selfies taken on my iPhone. The selfies were then digitally arranged in Photoshop, and custom-printed onto blanket template. Some blankets in this series were further altered by hand through adding, subtracting, layering, and weaving other textiles into the work, or by cutting slits into the blanket and pinning them open. Read more about the series below.

Lips
2019
Blanket, sewing pins, dowel, plastic hooks, sand
99" x 68"

Lips​ utilizes a custom-printed, mass-produced blanket that I repeatedly slit, peeled back, and pinned into place. The resulting colorful ‘lips’ that appear against the white underside of the blanket alludes to the hyper-sexualization and commodification of women’s bodies, and the saturation of this imagery in digital media and advertising industries.

Lashes
2019
Custom-printed fleece blanket, scrap fabric, fake eyelashes, rhinestones, tassels, trim, adhesive, grommets
50"x60"

Lashes​ utilizes a mass-produced blanket that was custom-printed with an intimate photo-collage of my own selfies in a checkerboard pattern. Soft red and pink fabrics, decorative textile scraps, and single-use beauty products designed to temporarily ‘enhance’ women’s bodies are built up around this pattern. Lashes​ aims to critique the absurd cultural canons of beauty and femininity in the US, and the cycles of consumption and waste that fuel those industries.

​Broken Dishes
2018

Custom-printed blanket with digital collage
60"x80"

Iris Medallion
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2018

Custom-printed blanket with digital collage
60"x80"

Press

Review of two works from this series while on view in a group show.
​Written by John Anderson for Washington City Paper
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  • Home
  • Works
    • 2D Works >
      • Monotypes
      • Embroidery
      • Drawing & Painting
      • Nine Patch Series, 2018
      • Collage, 2019
    • Sculpture & Installation >
      • Ceramic Sculpture, 2021
      • Wood Constructions, 2019 - 2020
      • Altered Blanket Series, 2018-19
      • Untitled Pedestals, 2018
      • Ribbon House, 2018
      • ROYGBIV, 2017
      • Gradient Series, 2017
      • Stretch, 2015 - 2018
    • Video & Performance >
      • Porcelain Towers, 2021
      • Body Like A Cage, 2021
      • Crochet II, 2017
    • Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions >
      • Body Joy Cage Scar
      • Within/Between, 2018
      • Nine Patch, 2018
      • Gradient, 2017
      • Feminicity, 2017
      • Skin Contention, 2013
  • About
  • CV
  • Press
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