Nine Patch
IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC
June 1 - July 1, 2018

Exhibition Statement

Nine Patch is a widening exploration into societal notions of beauty, femininity, sexuality, and the body as landscape. In this exhibition, Morrow juxtaposes self-portraiture and traditional quilt patterns in photographic manifestations. This process compiles thousands of "selfies" taken by the artist, which are digitally assembled into traditional and non-traditional quilting patterns. Constructing and deconstructing these images until they become highly stylized abstractions, the final compositions simultaneously conceal and reveal her own body. The act of crocheting/quilt-making was once a family legacy but has largely dissipated from living memory with the generations past. Morrow (a non-quilter) is reexamining this piece of family history through video, photography and sculptures that utilize found and donated textiles. These personal, collected materials indicate comfort, intimacy, and traditionally domestic spaces, but aim to reach ideas surrounding solitude; or more precisely acts of solitude, such as the labor of quilting/crocheting.

Press

East City Art review of Nine Patch series while on view at Brentwood Arts Exchange in Washington, DC. Review by ​by Sarah McGavran, PhD.

Interviewed by IA&A at Hillyer about the upcoming solo exhibition in their gallery