self portrait, 2022
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
contact at jb.morton3 at gmail.com
studio at 140 58th Street
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Building B - ArtBuilt, Suite 7I
Brooklyn, NY 11220
James Burleigh Morton is an artist whose diverse working methods address relations between living memory, historical imagination and the contemporary mode of production. Mixing camerawork between film and digital formats, archival research and reproduction, materialist photo-exposures and gestural painting, the optical unconscious is provoked across a range of registers. This breadth of technique exercises the memetic faculty and taps into the generative capacity of tensions between chance and craft, fact and meaning, experience and a scientific world picture.
Intermingling commercial and artistic process, labor is figured throughout as mediator of the metabolic interaction between nature and society. A recurring motif of “the frame,” alludes to the dialectic between the particular and universal, context and autonomy; lines of thought which leave the “thing-in-itself” continuously dissolving into a set of relations.