Sea-Saw<\/a><\/p>\n Morton\u2019s work is as unusual as her biography. Born in upstate New York, in 1936, Morton, who was a trained nurse, only started making art in her thirties and received her MFA at the age of 34, already a mother of three. Google Ree Morton<\/a><\/p>\n NYtimes Ree Morton -Artist\/Mother<\/a><\/p>\n Present in the selection of pieces are many of Morton\u2019s sentimental, d\u00e9cor-oriented, performatively feminine motifs \u2014 bows; ruffles; wallpaper; flowers; fairy-tale-looking flags; loopy, girlish cursive lettering \u2014 which collectively one critic would later refer to as \u201cEmily Dickinson in love with Raymond Roussel.\u201d When she prepared the application, Morton had been making artwork for less than a decade, and a few months later, she would be dead.<\/p>\n In the 41 years since, Morton \u2014 who once described her own artistic ambitions as \u201clight and ironic on serious subjects without frivolity\u201d \u2014 has become something of an obsession within the art world. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n RECITATIONS<\/p>\n Mean Business<\/p>\n mean mean me an you, babe.<\/p>\n Text by Ree Morgan <\/p>\n Sea-Saw Morton\u2019s work is as unusual as her biography. Born in upstate New York, in 1936, Morton, who was a trained nurse, only started making art in her thirties and received her MFA at the age of 34, already a mother of three. Her entire body of work was created between 1968 and 1977, when … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1aaaReinaSofia-e1536523851929.jpeg\")
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