ANNIE MORRIS

ANNIE MORRIS

Timothy Taylor 515 West 19th StreetNew York, NY 10011, USA Friday, September 13, 2019–Saturday, October 19, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 12, 2019, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.


stack 8, studio violet by annie morris

Annie Morris

Stack 8, Studio Violet, 2019

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 Timothy Taylor, New York is pleased to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new works by British artist Annie Morris. Drawing on both personal experience and the history of art, Morris’s multi-disciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, tapestry, and drawing. The exhibition features Morris’s Stack sculptures—bulbous forms balanced precariously on top of one another, often reaching heights of up to three metres. The precarious composition of each sculpture defies their overall towering height, referring to Morris’s own experiences of pregnancy and miscarriage—they become totems to persistence in the face of adversity. The forms are sculpted in plaster and sand, and then painted with hand-sourced pigments such as Ultramarine, Viridian and Ochre. Contrastingly, Morris also explores this composition in bronze, burning pigment into the surface to create a reflective quality in contrast with the densely-coated, lumpen quality of the pigment Stacks.  The exhibition also includes new colour tapestry works by Morris into which Formalist compositional concerns are translated as grids. The loose, hanging tapestries use thread as a drawing implement to combine personal ciphers and abstract mark-making. Fabrics are collaged together and machine-stitched with thread that represents Morris’s unique lexicon. Her intuitive sense of line is at once both authoritative and imaginative - seamlessly shifting between abstraction and representation. The exhibition in New York follows the recent announcement of Annie Morris joining the gallery’s roster. Morris (b. 1978) studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris under Giuseppe Penone and now lives and works in London. Her work has been previously exhibited in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Seattle, Mumbai, Milan and New York. Her work has been featured in notable group exhibitions including: She Persists, 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Blue, Arvind Indigo Museum, India (2019), Surface Works, Victoria Miro, London (2018), Form & Volume at Art Space, Stockholm (2017), Shortlisted for The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Award at The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017), After Marcel Duchamp, The Fine Art Society, London (2015), Summer Show curator selection The Royal Academy, London (2014), Sculpture Al Fresco III at Great Fosters Sculpture Park, UK (2013), Merging Bridges, Baku Museum of Modern Art, Azerbaijan (2012), and The House of Fairy Tales, Tate St Ives, UK (2013). Works by Morris are held in numerous international public collections including: Kistefos Museet, Norway; The Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; University of Colorado; The Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Hotel Crillon Collection, Paris; The Cranford Collection, London; and Yarat Museum, Azerbaijan.