The Morton Piece, 2009

In between consuming tons of good food, and most of the free art Washington DC has to offer, i Managed to make a small thanksgiving treat of an installation for my brother’s apartment. The piece was created to accompany one of the Norman Prints that he purchased and I am pretty happy with the results. full image gallery is viewable here
http://www.jonathanbrilliant.com/morton
Up next I need to finish mounting a triptych of drawings for a group show that opens this week at plum elements in charleston, then I begin preparing for Sticks, Straws Sleeves and Lids which opens January 15th at The university of South Carolina. In between that I also need to figure out the final logistics for the stir stick piece for Eternal Return at Nurtureart in Brooklyn(a curated group show i have agreed to do a woven stir stick piece for). I am mostly focused on the USC show right now as it will be the first time in a couple of years that I will have enough time to present my expanded vision of what an installation drawn entirely from the detritus of the coffee shop and my ideas about british and southern sculpture. Plus it might be only the second time in working this way that throughout the duration of the install i will be sleeping in my own bed and won’t need to travel more than ten minutes between studio and site. below are some process shots of the install in the apartment and an image of the print that the piece will accompany.

I did the bulk of the weaving in a couple mornings, then adjusted the piece to fit the space around the window.
This is actually the couch where i stayed for thanksgiving, doing double duty as a sculpture stand and a guest bedroom.

this is the norman relief print/embossing that will accompany the Morton piece in it’s new location.