MIDCENTURY PRINT SERIES

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JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY PRINT SERIES

Each collage (in my new series titled MIDCENTURY) exist completely as high resolution digital images. All images available from this open edition series are expressed as digital pigment prints using museum quality archival ink and paper (print size 24X36” or 12X18”).

The new prints titled MIDCENTURY have been described as "imagery inspired by advertising from the 1950's and 1960's, certainly Joan Holloway and the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency (from the TV show Mad Men) would love this new work."

ART DESIGN

As a visual artist, graphic designer, native of Southern California and graduate of Cal Arts my work is respectfully influenced by many different concepts, including the art and design created by
John Baldessari and Lou Danziger. Both men have managed outstanding careers.

In my career I have experienced a variety of art and design projects and recently as my focus changes to personal creative work, I realize the need to be engaged in a dialogue with other artists and art-consumers. As a connoisseur of archival printing techniques, both analog and digital, I also realize the need to sustain learning and teaching new art-making methods. Having the chance to take part in critical discussions based on conceptual issues as well as technical issues clearly are all essential matters to my maintaining a contemporary perspective as a participating artist.

With each of my new art and design projects, the goal to develop a solution that is viewed exclusively as unprecedented seems nonessential, and is of no interest to me. What does interest me and motivate me as an artist is the appeal to produce inspired art and design.

COLLECTIONS COMMISSIONS REVIEWS

Eli Broad, Michael Crichton, Len Peltier, Jay Farrar, Son Volt, Cracker, Adam Duritz, Counting Crows, REM, Gillian Welch, Jonathan Rundman, Dwight Yoakam, Paul Turpin, Peter and Barbara Benedek, William Bro, Craig Bennet, Andrew Schwartz, Ian Charles, Colin Gardner, Hunter Drohojowska, Suzannne Muchnic, Constance Mallinson, Heather Allred, Virgin Records, Warner Brothers Records, Elektra Records, Artemis, Getty Images, Fender Music, Chronicle Books, Harper's, Tape-Op, Paste Magazine, National Public Radio, This American Life, The Capitol Group, IBM Corporation, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Artforum and Art In America.

GALLERIES

Jan Kesner Gallery Los Angeles CA, Ace Gallery Los Angeles CA, Richard Kulenschmidt Gallery Los Angeles CA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Artist Space Gallery New York NY, Amy Lipton Gallery New York NY, and The Nightlight Lounge Gallery Bellingham WA.

JIM WARD MORRIS

BFA and MFA CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS

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MIDCENTURY MODERN AMERICA

Midcentury Modern America : Marilyn Monroe meets Pierre Koenig.

An examination of advertising, architecture, art, design, music, performance, and the creative popular culture deluge, developed in the United States (specifically) during the 1950’s and 1960’s decades.

Jim Ward Morris (thesis) 2010.

MIDCENTURY 16

IMAGE TITLE: MIDCENTURY 16

New print image size 24X36 and 12X18 (inches).

School Teacher

School Of Rock!

Teaching Certificate…and the long journey begins.

Tomorrow begins my long journey to become a public school teacher. I will return to college for at least 2 years and at the end of that time I will receive my degree in education and my teaching certificate.

Like it or not, this country requires every person with the desire to teach in a public school to jump through many different hoops in order to become a certified teacher (private schools and colleges not so much). Some might even say many of these hoops are unnecessary and may not even be a good gauge or even an accurate measure of a persons ability to become a qualified teacher. I believe most of the passion one needs to be a good educator comes from within and not from receiving a teaching credential. But, this is the system that we have.

Many years ago, I first heard the line, “To change the system and to make a difference in this world you must be a part of the system." Well, today as I prepare for school...I prepare to make a difference.

Men who change diapers…change the world and make it better.
Men who teach...teach the world to change and make it better.

J W Morris

"To Sir With Love" 1967
Excellent movie about a public school teacher who makes life better.

Bob Dylan lyrics

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez
When it’s Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don’t pull you through
Don’t put on any airs
When you’re down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outta you

Now if you see Saint Annie
Please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move
My fingers are all in a knot
I don’t have the strength
To get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor
Won’t even say what it is I’ve got

Sweet Melinda
The peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good English
And she invites you up into her room
And you’re so kind
And careful not to go to her too soon
As she takes your voice
And leaves you howling at the moon

Up on Housing Project Hill
It’s either fortune or fame
You must pick up one or the other
Though neither of them are to be what they claim
If you’re lookin’ to get silly
You better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don’t need you
And man they expect the same

Now all the authorities
They just stand around and boast
How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms
Into leaving his post
And picking up Angel who
Just arrived here from the coast
Who looked so fine at first
But left looking just like a ghost

I started out on burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they’d stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to bluff
I’m going back to New York City
I do believe I’ve had enough

Copyright©1965 Warner Bros. Inc, Renewed by Special Rider Music

everything will be ok in the end

everything will be ok in the end.

if it is not ok,

it is not the end.

Vintage Portable Record Players

check-out the cool vintage turntable collection at klang museum.

GIRLS LOVE TURNTABLES

this girl loves her turntable more than her shoes!

ANALOG MUSIC HI FI SOUND

an iPod is easy...but a vintage analog hi-fi is best!

THE SOUND OF TOMORROW TODAY!

I did not design this LP cover...but yet it is still extra cool (note the description HI-FI in the upper right hand corner). This midcentury album is way before the more popular STEREO version. I wish the term Hi-Fi (for HIGH FIDELITY SOUND) would make a come back.

Stig Lindberg

I love these two TV sets...both designed by Stig Lindberg.

Tremolux Fender Amp / Blackface or Blonde

mid-60's blackface tremolux amp made in Fullerton, CA.



early-60's blonde tremolux amp made in Fullerton, CA.

Blue Note Records Midcentury

vinyl record covers from the cool midcentury label Blue Note Records.

Eero Saarinen Womb Chair & Ottoman

Womb Chair and Ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen, first manufactured in 1953...still looks great today!

Originally titled: Model No. 70

Eero Aarnio Ball Chair

very cool Ball Chair designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Dave: Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Dave: What’s the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don’t know what you’re talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow.
Dave: Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

I'm not completely sure what 2001: A Space Odyssey is all about...but it is still one of my favorites.
Brilliant images (created in 1968 by Stanley Kubrick).

Maybe this film is about the body and the soul.

WILSON PICKETT IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

In The Midnight Hour: Wilson Pickett
Written By: Wilson Pickett and Steve Cropper

I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
That's when my love comes tumbling down
I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
When there's no one else around
I'm gonna take you girl and hold you
And do all the things I told you
In the midnight hour
Yes I am
Oh, Yes I am
One more thing I just want to say right here

I'm gonna wait till the stars come out
And see that twinkle in your eyes
I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
That's when my love begins to shine
You're the only girl I know
That really loves me so
In the midnight hour
Oh Yeah...In the midnight hour
Yeah, Alright, play it for me one time now

Solo:

I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
That's when my love comes tumbling down
I'm gonna wait, way in the midnight hour
That's when my love begins to shine
Just you and I, Oh baby
Just you and I
Nobody around baby
Just you and I, Alright
I'm gonna hold you, In my arms
Just you and I
Oh Yeah...In the midnight hour.