{"product_id":"mark-morrisroe-1959-1989-clampart-new-york-2011","title":"Mark Morrisroe (1959–1989) — Exhibition Announcement Card, ClampArt, New York, 2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition announcement card\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 15 × 10 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003cbr\u003ePublished by ClampArt, New York\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 24 March – 30 April 2011\u003cbr\u003eCondition: good vintage condition; light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with storage and age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for a 2011 solo exhibition dedicated to Mark Morrisroe at ClampArt in New York, produced simultaneously with the major survey \u003cem\u003eMark Morrisroe: From This Moment On\u003c\/em\u003e at Artists Space. Together the two exhibitions contributed to a broader re-examination of Morrisroe’s short but influential career and his position within late twentieth-century photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card reproduces \u003cem\u003eSelf Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e (1980 \/ photogravure edition printed 1996), an image that condenses much of Morrisroe’s practice into a single frame: intimacy, performance, vulnerability, and self-invention. Rather than presenting portraiture as stable documentation, Morrisroe treated the photograph as a mutable surface — manipulated through layered negatives, reprinting, and darkroom intervention. His images frequently move between autobiography and fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssociated with the Boston School alongside figures such as Nan Goldin and David Armstrong, Morrisroe photographed friends, lovers, and underground communities with an immediacy that resisted polished documentary conventions. The work sits between diaristic record and constructed persona, preserving both closeness and instability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a New Rare inventory this card functions as a secondary record of a second life: a contemporary exhibition built around posthumous circulation, where the image continues to move through archive, institution, estate, and print support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ClampArt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53549988446546,"sku":"MORRISROE-CLAMP-INV-2011","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Morrisroe_Mark._Clamp_Art_opening_reception_invite._2011_front.jpg?v=1779605198","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/mark-morrisroe-1959-1989-clampart-new-york-2011","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}