Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle: Annie Morris Museum Selections

Annie Morris Figure and Form

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Morris’ sculptures are towers shaped from plaster; sand, and painted with raw pigment to resemble a three-dimensional artist’s palate. Inspired by her strength from personal struggles, Morris chooses to focus on the hopefulness and vibrancy of life. The seemingly weightless forms are a metaphor for pure joy and the ability to conquer the impossible. Each layer of her towers teeters over the other, threatening to fall, yet gently supporting each other’s balance.

Since completing her degree from École des Beaux-Arts Paris, Morris has exhibited at The Royal Academy, London; Baku MoMA, Azerbaijan and The New Art Gallery, Walsall and Tate Gallery, St Ives.

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Stack 9, Caput Mortuum, 2015 mixed media 76 x 12 x 12 inhes

Stack 9, Ultramarine Purple, 2015 mixed media 78 x 12 x 12 inches

Stack 8, Iron Oxide Orange, 2015, mixed media, 118 x 16 x 16 inches

Stack 6, Bordeaux Red, 2015, mixed media, 78 x 8 x 8 inches

For the first time, Morris has taken her sculptural exploration into the medium of bronze. Her hopefulness and ability to question what we consider to be constant rules, is pushed further by the use of metal. Her sculptures create movement upwards, each part floating upon the next, while solidly connected by their substance.

Bronze Detail, 2015, bronze, 85 x 25.25 x 25.25 (base) inches

Bronze Stack, 2015, bronze 85 x 25.25 x 25.25 (base) inches

In her Face painting series, Morris again demonstrates her mastery of fluidity and ability to encapsulate the sense of eortlessness in abstract form.  Morris builds her canvases by layering planes of figures, creating a greater whole, rather than a group of individuals. Each face is drawn and overdrawn, emerging from the gestural and fluid composition, creating a new layer and sense of connectedness with the viewer.Â

Faces Painting, 2015, oil on canvas, 53.25 x 47.25 inches

Faces Painting Detail (painting in full opposite page, 2015, oil on canvas

Faces Painting, 2015, oil on canvas, 51.25 x 59 inches

For Morris, drawing has always been an instinctual act, something natural and also comforting. It is the place she returns to as an artist. The Stitch Drawings are a way for Morris to connect even further with her expressions. By using thread to draw, her creative process is slowed and becomes more intimate. They become something more physically tangible and sculptural. As with all of her artworks, Morris continues to use symbolic imagery to explore themes of hope and renewed life.

Three Trees, 2014, thread on canvas, 55 x 132 inches

The Night 2014 Thread on Canvas 82 x 74 inches

Hope From A Thin Line (detail), 2014, thread on canvas

Morris was first drawn to the clothes peg due to its humble function and domestic connotations. “Its only job is to cling on,” she says. The peg series began in 2005, and marries material and form with the proportions of the clothes peg perfectly suited to depict the human figure. Equally, like much of Morris’ work they emanate an obsessive beauty- one feels the time spent letting the hand and pen freewheel through tens, hundreds, thousands of figures. This is the first and most basic of Morris’ repeated motifs- the female nude. Here she is controlled and ordered. The women stand together emanating a collective strength. The ranks of colored nudes stare out at you, each one with a story to tell and each one buoyed by their surrounding companions.

Untitled Peg Painting 2012 Paint on wooden pegs 40 x 38 inches

Untitled Peg Painting, 2013, Paint on wooden pegs, 48 x 48 inches

Untitled Peg Painting (detail), 2012

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Born 2011 The London Art Fair, Thomas Williams Gallery, London, England 1978 London, England 2010 The Big Rip Off, Camden Arts Centre, London, England

House of Fairly Tales, Victor Wynd Fine Art, London, England Education House of Fairly Tales, St. Ives, London, England 2002-2003 Slade School of Art, London, England House of Fairy Tales, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England 1998-2002 Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, under Guiseppe Penone, 2007 Allsopp Contemporary, Miami Art Fair Paris, France Jeannie, Frielich Fine Art, Miami Art Fair 1997-1998 Foundation, St.Martins College of Art and Design, 2006 Nine, Jeannie Frielich Fine Art, New York, NY London, England The Rivington Arms Gallery, New York, NY

2005 Francesca Gavin Group Exhibition, London, England Solo Exhibitions Thomans Williams Fine Art, London, England 2015 Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2014 Hope from a Thin Line, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY Selected Press 2012 There is a Land Called Loss, Pertwee, Anderson and Gold Gallery, 2013 Amuse Magazine London, England 2012 ‘Out Of The Blue’, Wallpaper Magazine 2010 Annie Morris, Winston Wächter Fine Art. New York, NY ‘Neutopian Vision For the Future’ Metro 2007 When a Happy Thing Falls, Allsopp Contemporary.

2011 Sunday Times Magazine London, England 2010 The Independent When a Happy Thing Falls, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art. New York, NY Hoxton Square Magazine 2006 Annie Morris, LightBox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ‘Calling Annie Morris’ Elle Magazine 2005 Annie Morris, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, England ‘Bare Bones Chic’, Vogue Annie Morris: Glass Paintings, Postcards, Thomas Williams Gallery, 20 Newspaper London, England 2009 ‘In Vogue’, Vogue 2004 Annie Morris, Adam St. Gallery. Curated by Nick Hackwordth ‘Urban Fix’ ES Magazine London, England 2008 Stylefile’ Vogue The Man With the Dancing Eyes, The Daniel Katz Gallery, London, ES Magazine England Fanfair.Artist Portrait, Vanity Fair

2007 The Art of Fashion’ The Independent Magazine Group Exhibitions Another Magazine 2013 Sculpture Al Fresco III, Great Fosters Sculpture Park, 2006 ‘Annie Morris’, Revue, The Independent on Sunday Surrey England Jalouse Magazine, London Art Fair, Pertwee, Andeson and Gold Gallery, London, England ‘The Hot List, 2006’ Harpers and Queen 2012 Merging Bridges at Baku Museum of Modern Art, Azerbaijan, 2005 ‘Pegged For Stardom’ The Independent The British Cut, The Space, Fine Art Society, Hong Kong ‘The Next Big Thing’ The Sunday Time Magazine This is London, Shizaru Gallery, London, England ‘Just Hanging Out’ Telegraph Magazine The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Curated Room, ‘One’s to Watch’ Evening Standard Magazine London, England ‘Portrait Of An Artist’ The Grove Magazine Adam Waymouth Curated Exhibition, London, England ‘Fabricof Creation’ Harpers and Queen