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Ree Morton:
The Plant That Heals May Also Poison

The plant that heals may also poison 1974
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The Plant That Heals May Also Poison is the first major United States exhibition of artist Ree Morton (1936-1977) in nearly four decades. The exhibition features several rarely seen works, including a selection of installations, drawings, sculptures, paintings, and archival materials which span a single decade of artistic production before Morton’s untimely death in 1977.

Throughout her career, Morton produced a philosophically complex body of work rich in emotion. Though celebrated by peers and younger artists, Morton’s influence on contemporary art remains considerable yet muted, her legacy widely underrecognized. The eclectic arc of Morton’s practice was rooted in Postminimalism, the inclusion of personal narrative—through literary, theoretical, and autobiographical references—and use of bold color and theatrical imagery infused her objects with sly humor and a concern with the decorative, generating a feminist legacy increasingly appreciated in retrospect. Reimagining tropes of love, friendship, and motherhood, while radically asserting sentiment as a legitimate subject of artmaking, Morton’s conceptually rigorous work demonstrates generosity towards the viewer, its spirit of playfulness and joy inflecting all aspects of the exhibition.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-published with Dancing Foxes Press with texts by Kate Kraczon, the exhibition’s curator; artist Nayland Blake; Kathryn Gile; and scholars Roksana Filipowska and Abi Shapiro.

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Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison is organized by The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, and curated by Kate Kraczon, Curator, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. The ICA LA presentation is organized by Jamillah James, Curator.

The exhibition is supported by the Inchworm Fund, the Edna W. Andrade Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, Nancy & Leonard Amoroso, Amanda & Andrew Megibow, Norma & Lawrence Reichlin.

ICA LA is supported by its Curator’s Council, Fieldwork, and 1717 Collective.

Ree Morton received her BFA from the University of Rhode Island in 1968 and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1970. During her lifetime, her work was exhibited at Artists Space, New York (1973); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1974); and the South Street Seaport Museum, New York (1975). She was twice included in the Whitney Biennial, once in 1973 and again in 1977. She has since had retrospectives at the New Museum, New York (1980); the Generali Foundation, Vienna (2008); the Drawing Center, New York (2009); and the Reina Sofia, Madrid (2015).
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The Plant That Heals May Also Poison, 1974
Five lightbulbs, enamel and glitter on wood and celastic
46 × 64 in. (116.9 × 162.6 cm)
FWA – Lieve Van Gorp Foundation for Women Artists
© Estate of Ree Morton; courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York.

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69 Ree Morton:
The Plant That Heals May Also Poison
2020-02-16 2020-06-14
The plant that heals may also poison 1974
4:42pm Nov 12, 2019 Page
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75 Agency of Assets x El Clasificado 2019-12-06 2020-01-26
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73 CURRENT:LA FOOD Public Art Triennial 2019 2019-10-05 2019-11-03
CURRENT:LA FOOD
11:04am Oct 07, 2019 Page
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67 No Wrong Holes:
Thirty Years of Nayland Blake
2019-09-29 2020-01-26
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12:35pm Dec 12, 2019 Page
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72 Sadie Barnette:
The New Eagle Creek Saloon
2019-09-29 2020-01-26
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1:02pm Nov 15, 2019 Page
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70 Hervé Tullet: Ideal Exhibition 2019-07-14 2019-09-08
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71 Worldwide Orphans: Element of Play® 2019-07-14 2019-09-08
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68 Brognon-Rollin:
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2019-03-17 2019-06-30
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63 Patty Chang:
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2019-03-17 2019-08-04
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3:05pm Oct 01, 2019 Page
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19 Maryam Jafri:
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2019-02-10 2019-06-30
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4:16pm Oct 01, 2019 Page
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64 Lucas Blalock:
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2019-02-10 2019-08-04
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62 Adrian Piper
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61 Agency of Assets:
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4 B. Wurtz:
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2018-09-30 2019-02-17
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6 Nina Chanel Abney:
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11:58am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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2 This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists 2018-06-03 2018-09-02
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3:54pm Oct 01, 2019 Page
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20 sisters and brothers 2018-04-22 2018-06-17
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11:54am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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18 Rafa Esparza: de la Calle 2018-04-22 2018-07-15
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6:11pm Jul 09, 2018 Page
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9 Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) 2018-02-04 2018-04-22
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11:49am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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8 Skip Arnold: Truffle Hunt 2018-01-28 2018-04-08
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11:45am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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1 Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation 2017-09-09 2017-12-31
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2:40pm May 08, 2019 Page
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7 Abigail DeVille: No Space Hidden (Shelter) 2017-09-09 2018-01-14
Deville install 02
11:37am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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5 Sarah Cain: Now I’m going to tell you everything 2017-09-09 2018-03-11
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11 Moshe Ninio:
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2015-01-17 2015-04-02
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11:39pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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10 Brian Weil, 1979–1995:
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11:40pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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