Arrival, 2023
Oil on linen
50h x 40w in
Mother, 2022
Oil on linen
43h x 40w in
Helm, 2022
Acrylic on linen
48h x 48w in
Drop City, 2023
Handmade wasp nest paper and ink mounted on linen
30h x 30w in
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 2022
Ink on handmade paper containing moss, morning glory seeds, cosmos seeds, milkweed, and an ethically-sourced preserved Papilio erostratus black and white butterfly, mounted on linen
24h x 30w in
L'atmosphère, 2022
Ink on handmade paper containing moss, morning glory seeds, cosmos seeds, milkweed, and an ethically-sourced preserved Thysania agrippina white witch moth, mounted on linen
30h x 30w in
Clay and Milk, 2023
Oil on linen
23h x 61w in
Iron Oxide, 2023
Oil on linen
17h x 71w in
Lily Morris grew up on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and attended Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, in 2007. She graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA in 2009.
Lily’s work has been featured in the Netflix original film Bird Box, Playboy Magazine, and in the HBO series The Undoing. Her solo shows include American Dream at A Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard, The Event at Unit One in the 798 District of Beijing, China, and Aeria Signum at Thompson Giroux Gallery in NY. She has participated in multiple group shows including The Salon, a collaboration between the Peabody Essex Museum and curator Olivia Ives-Flores, Sound Source at MoMA PS1, and The Young Collectors Exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery in NY. She currently lives and works in Chatham, NY.
In creating Descent, Chatham-based painter Lily Morris, 36, was inspired by François Lemoyne's The Apotheosis of Hercules, a mural at Versailles that depicts the Greek hero being inducted into the ranks of the gods by his father Jupiter. "I love this painting as an aesthetic feast," Morris says. "It's a cosmic snow globe, and Versailles itself is the Barbie penthouse of 18th-century France. The completion of the mural earned the artist the title of First Painter to the King, yet the artist killed himself shortly thereafter. I find the contrast of fantasy power play and the stark reality of lived experiences fascinating with regard to this painting's history."
Mtn Space gallery in Lake Worth Beach will unveil an exhibit of new bodies of work by New York-based painter Lily Morris, February 10. In Lily Morris: Witchcraft, several of the artist’s large-scale photorealistic paintings of women in unearthly settings, such as Arrival (2023) and Descent (2022), will be showcased. The works imagine women free from repression, with Morris inserting herself within a framework to disrupt it from the inside.
