About Suzanne M.

Suzanne Morlock is a Jackson Hole based intermedia artist who exhibits internationally and maintains an active schedule dividing venues between experimental and traditional settings. Influenced by early training in Los Angeles, she now looks to the rural surroundings of northwestern Wyoming for an introspective influence on her work. Her work has been in group and solo exhibitions throughout the West and the world beyond, including France, Germany, Iceland, Poland, and Turkey. Most recently, she was featured in Sculpture Magazine (March 2012) and in 2012 was nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship and a Contemporary Northwest Artist Award.

uncontained: the dance of the chronically ill

Immersive Installations
Art321 – January 11-February 26, 2022

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uncontained: the dance of the chronically ill
12’x14’x15’, medical detritus, audio, video, invented elements and found objects, 2022.

This immersive installation assembles symbols of persistence and unrelenting navigation through the healthcare terrain. My creative method often pierces a realm particularly resistant to language, a somatic response where the doing, the making of the work, holds the language which most directly articulates my intent.

Repurposed detritus from years of unresolved illness, uncontained reveals a snapshot of the human fiber and the limits of medicine. A healthcare system weak and expensive for those whose maladies are outside the narrow path of typical diagnoses. Wyoming residents are further disadvantaged by the government’s refusal to expand Medicaid to protect vulnerable members of our communities.


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Flight of Fancy Flies Again

Sadly, a while back, Suzanne’s collaborative installation Flight of Fancy in Rauma, Finland was heavily vandalized. Happily, her Finnish collaborator Tarmo Thorström stepped forward to create a new replacement “lace” element. He coordinated with Suzanne and Glenn (the third collaborator) to ensure his new work was compatible with Suzanne and Glenn’s original vision. In fact, the end result is closer to their initial vision than the first installed version was! Suzanne and Glenn are very pleased with the end result. Beautiful work Tarmo!

contagion


At the intersection of climate change and health care policy, this performative installation kinesthetically draws a visceral snapshot of lived experience. Vector-borne diseases such as Lyme disease are on the rise as the climate warms. Coupled with increasingly divided health care access and increased burden of care, this poorly understood disease contributes to the rapidly rising contagion.
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shelter from the storm

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Visual artist Suzanne Morlock and invited collaborators Anitra Freeman, Margaret Johnson, Katmondu, Glenn Messersmith and Teresa Reeves undertook a process of experimental exchange for this one month residency. Bound by a common conceptual concern – homelessness, it formed the them for this exploration and is culminating in an evening of visual and performance response.

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Great Balls of Yarn!

GBY2webIn the spirit of this year’s Office of Arts and Culture Sculpture Walk theme – spectacle, Glenn Messersmith and Suzanne Morlock, have created a twist on our interests in celebrating craft technique in new and inventive ways at a big scale. We looked at the bollards around Key Arena, and found them ripe to be playfully transformed into enormous balls of yarn! So this week 21 bollards on the east side of Key Arena have been transformed into Great Balls of Yarn!  …and there's more »

Internal Politics: Great Expectations

Through an invitation to participate in a group exhibition in NYC entitled Internal Politics: Great Expectations, Suzanne submitted Like You, Like Me, an audio collage which features the brave stories of people in Seattle who are currently experiencing homelessness or have experienced homelessness in the recent past. These compelling stories resonate with humanness, strength and struggle. Eleven voices in this collage are those of Real Change News vendors in Seattle, Washington.

The Arts Inhabit an Old Furniture Factory

With the recent release of the 2016 One Night Count (which increased with 733 more people sleeping out unsheltered), in conjunction with exhibitions 35 Live and UN[contained] presented by the Center on Contemporary Art, Morlock will participate in a pop-up exhibition on Saturday, March 12, from 6-10pm in Georgetown, as part of the monthly Georgetown Art Attack. Conceived of as an extra special evening of creativity by CoCA in conjunction with the Equinox open studios at 6555 5th Ave S., Seattle WA.

More Fruit and a Fond Farewell

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Toward the end of our residency we collaborated with Osteria da Filippo hosting movie nights! Osteria da Filippo is a local Italian osteria owned by Filippo who married a local woman and who shares his native Italian culture through food in Old Rauma. Suzanne and Glenn hosted 4 Wednesdays of art biographies at the Osteria. Filippo was excited to have some entertainment at the Osteria and was gracious about making a poster and spreading the word.  …and there's more »