"Inside" Graces Atlantic Station
Mobiles of silvery human figures only 2,000ths of an inch thick, their feet skimming the floor, drift gently through the space, moving shadows cast in mid-air, pliable reflections occupying space far beyond the space they occupy.
"CURBSIDE HAIKU" TAKES NYC!!!!
New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan launched "Curbside Haiku" on November 30, 2011 with a press conference at the Studio Museum of Harlem.
The NYC DOT has posted more than 200 metal signs in NYC's five boroughs, all featuring images and haiku by John Morse encouraging traffic and pedestrian safety.
The signs, 8" x 8" (and a few 18" x 18" versions posted at city-owned public parking lots), have the accompanying haiku text on a separate sign or feature a qr code that allows smartphone users to download the haiku to their mobile device. The installation will be on display in New York through October, 2012.
John was awarded the Municipal Art Society of New York's 2011 Brendan Gill Prize on March 1, 2012. The prize is "...given to the creator of a work of art made during the previous year that captures the energy and spirit of New York City,..."
There are twelve different images and haiku poems, ten in English, two in Spanish. Click here for all of them.
"PTP" GOES TO COLLEGE
Paired Trilateral Pyramids selected for the 2012 8th Biennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Georgia Perimeter College Department of Fine Arts, Clarkson, Georgia. On exhibit through May 4.
John Morse, Paired Trilateral Pyramids, 2011, painted wood, swivel.
8.5’ x 2.5’
FULTON COUNTY (ATLANTA) ARTS PROGRAM EXHIBITS 2010 "ROADSIDE HAIKU" CREATIVE PROCESS PAPERS
Preparatory materials created for 2010’s Roadside Haiku street installation are featured in “Maquettes Models and Sketches: Public Art as Process,” presented by the Fulton County Public Art Program and Abernathy Arts Center, March 2-April 13. Informal artist presentations on Saturday, March 31 from 3 to 4 PM. The public is invited.
