NYAB Event - Mark Morrisroe "From This Moment On"

Mark Morrisroe "From This Moment On"

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"Marl Morrisroe: From This Moment On" will be the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of works by photographer and filmmaker Mark Morrisroe (1959 - 1989), providing an insight into the radical and innovative output of his short career. Mark Morrisroes work was intrinsically tied to his elaborate personae and his sexual and social relationships. He grew up in Boston where he worked as a teenager hustler and where he later went to art school, before moving to New York City in the mid 1980s.
Morrisroes subjects were his friends, lovers, and his everyday surroundings. The imagery of his photographs and 8mm films combines the diaristic with the melodramatic, presenting the post-punk scenes in Boston and New York through a lens of vivid and romantic degradation and decay. He worked with the immediate medium of Polaroid, while also experimenting with the photographic process, creating layered and hand-painted prints, photograms and cyanotypes. His resulting works are searing and frank portrayals of the display of selfhood, sexuality, illness and death.
[Image: Mark Morrisroe "Nymph-O-Maniac Promo Still Spectacular Studios" (Pia, Richard, Nathan) 1984]

Media

• Photography
• Film

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