Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On

Artists Space, 2011, Softcover, 28 pages, 19 x 14 cm

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Mark Morrisroe’s work was intrinsically tied to his elaborate personae and his sexual and social relationships. He grew up in Boston where he worked as teenager hustler and where he later went to art school, before moving to New York City in the mid 1980s. He died at the age of thirty from AIDS related illnesses. Morrisroe’s 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. Contributions by Kathy Acker, Michael Bracewell, David Joselit, Mark Morrisroe and Peggy Phelan.