Nine Patch

June 1 – July 1, 2018

Nine Patch is a widening exploration into societal notions of beauty, femininity,
sexuality, and the body as landscape. In this exhibition, Morrow juxtaposes selfportraiture and traditional quilt patterns in photographic manifestations. This process compiles hundreds 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.

Morrow’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland, New York, Canada, and France. Morrow has permanent installations and works on-loan at the National Institute of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, the Anacostia Arts Center in Washington, DC, and the Arlington Art Center in Arlington, VA, where she is a current Resident Artist.

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