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Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989)

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“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

Exhibitions

Hello from Bertha
Hello from Bertha

CLAMP presents “Hello from Bertha” the gallery’s 3rd exhibit of photography by Mark Morrisoe with examples of his different art-making techniques

Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989)
Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989)

CLAMP presents “Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989)” an exhibition of photographs, films, and ephemera; the first solo show of the artist’s work since ’99

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