“Mark was an outlaw on every front—sexually, socially, and artistically. He was marked by his dramatic and violent adolescence as a teenage prostitute with a deep distrust and a fierce sense of his uniqueness. I met him in Art School in 1977; he left shit in my mailbox as a gesture of friendship. Limping wildly down the halls in his torn t-shirts, calling himself Mark Dirt, he was Boston’s first punk. He developed into a photographer with a completely distinctive artistic vision and signature. Both his pictures of his lovers, close friends, and objects of desire, and his touching still-lifes of rooms, dead flowers, and dream images stand as timeless fragments of his life, resonating with sexual longing, loneliness, and loss.”
Nan Goldin, 1993
Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989)
Fascination
Self Portrait
Untitled (Self Portrait)
Katy’s Goldfish
Untitled (Trey with Spot)
Deceit (Eye)
Lynelle Contemplates the Owl
Lonely Bird
Lisa
Val (Bruce is King/Female Nude)
Untitled (Mark’s Hand # 2)
Tom of Finland
Untitled (Nude Man)
Gail Thacker
Gail Thacker and John Dorazio in Boston
Bill with Friend (No. 2)
Pia and Diane Q.
Malcolm Travis
Reclining Nude is Laura Brown
Untitled (Jonathan)
Untitled (Stephen and Jonathan)
Untitled (Janet with Cat)
Untitled (Lady Hamlet)
Untitled (Pat)
Untitled (Lynelle, Close-up)
Untitled (Lynelle)
Untitled (View from Jersey City Apartment)
Untitled (Female Nude)
Untitled (Still Life with Chanel Bag)
Untitled (Self Portrait)
Exhibition Image
Exhibition Image Two
