Jonathan Morse Reflects 11, 2015 Pigment Ink Print 22"x 28".
Jonathan Morse obtained his MFA in photography at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, where he studied photo-printmaking with Syl Labrot and Joan Lyons. Public collections include the Museum of Modern Art Photography Department, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Addison Gallery of American Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is a past recipient of the Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation Photography Fellowship and has taught at MIT and the Santa Fe Community College. Current work is shown at Hulse/Warman Gallery in Taos, New Mexico.
Morse has written about constructing his original prints: "Digital imaging enables a confluence of visual sources and personal influences in the service of making something new and unique, as opposed to the republication of existing work. Digital artistry mirrors that process of construction and deconstruction through which the past becomes the new, and through which we literally make our mark. Yet it's just another pencil, taking its rightful place in the continuum of human mark-making."
"This is computer art with a human hand embedded in its heart. Precisely by abandoning all attempts to make facsimiles of handmade things, he has found a way to make a technological thing that has had human life breathed into it. These are not photographs, or copies of something else – they are original works of art made wholly by technology, yet guided by a thoughtful and engaged human intellect." Christopher Benson, Fisher Press Gallery