Olivia Tripp Morrow
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(Un)tethered
June 13 - September 7, 2025
Solo Exhibition

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Exhibition view of (Un)tethered at MoCA Arlington, Arlington, VA

Exhibition Statement

Olivia Tripp Morrow's (Un)tethered explores the chaos and instability of grief, an emotion that can cause the whole world to feel suddenly upside-down. Drawing upon her personal experience of caring for her mother during a short battle with cancer and the incomprehensible void that was left after she died, Morrow reflects on the fragmentary nature of memory, and the enduring bonds and rituals that tether us to loved ones who have passed on.Throughout the exhibition, vibrant colors, soft forms, and airy, lightweight materials evoke a sense of peacefulness and serenity—characteristics that contradict traditional motifs associated with death and mourning.

​Working across embroidery, drawing, sculpture, and fiber-based installations, the works in
(Un)tethered share a through-line of representational imagery, such as flowers, windows, and fragments of bodies at rest. Flowers are particularly prominent throughout the exhibition and become symbols for simultaneous, contradicting interpretations—celebrating life, revisiting memories, marking absence, and mourning the dead.


The act of embroidery itself is loaded with significance for the artist. It was a skill Morrow’s mother taught her while she was recovering from major spine surgery in 2020, and to which she returned after her mother’s death in December 2023. Additionally, many of the materials used to create the works in (Un)tethered were inherited from Morrow’s mother, offering an opportunity for a form of posthumous artistic collaboration.

(Un)tethered is full of opposing ideas: what is seen or invisible, remembered or lost, and the unsettling experience of existing somewhere in between. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect upon their own relationships, and the legacies that keep us tethered to one another.
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  • Home
  • Works
    • 2D Works >
      • Drawing & Painting
      • Embroidery
      • Monotypes
      • Nine Patch Series, 2018
    • 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 >
      • Ordinary Sanctuary, 2023
      • Body Joy Cage Scar
      • Within/Between, 2018
      • Nine Patch, 2018
      • Gradient, 2017
      • Feminicity, 2017
      • Skin Contention, 2013
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