JIM WARD MORRIS

NEW MIDCENTURY 33 PRINT SIZE 6X2 FEET

2012-01-18T20:36:00.000-08:00

JIM WARD MORRIS 2012
MIDCENTURY 33 (PRINT SIZE 72"wide X 24"high)

JIM WARD MORRIS NEW MIDCENTURY 01

2011-08-20T21:36:00.000-07:00

I've changed this image recently...finally looks resolved to me.

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 20

2011-06-10T11:25:00.000-07:00

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 20

print size 36" X 24"

Noodle Soup @ Chemeketa Community College

2011-05-18T07:46:00.000-07:00

MIDCENTURY 10 from the series by JIM WARD MORRIS

lecture by JIM WARD MORRIS at chemeketa community college
visual communications building 4 room 279 11:00 AM

MIDCENTURY 04 JIM WARD MORRIS 2011

2011-05-06T15:10:00.000-07:00

MIDCENTURY 07 JIM WARD MORRIS 2011

2011-02-26T16:59:00.000-08:00

MIDCENTURY 18 JIM WARD MORRIS

2011-01-14T10:31:00.000-08:00

new image for 2011...very popular print

Yardbirds SHAPES OF THINGS

2010-12-30T18:49:00.000-08:00

very cool Yardbirds album cover

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 13

2010-12-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

MIDCENTURY 13 (print size 18X12 or 36X24 inches)

This print looks super cool framed and up on the wall.

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 10

2010-11-06T12:16:00.000-07:00

MIDCENTURY 10 (print size 18X12 or 36X24 inches)

This image has become one of my new favorites. The subtle colors in the STEREO FIDELITY design with the bold red and blacks, please me very time I see this print.

Cobra Phone

2010-10-03T17:28:00.000-07:00

the "Ericofon" made by the L M Ericsson Company in Sweden 1954.

(AKA) the "Cobra" phone.

REID MILES

2010-10-02T15:13:00.000-07:00

Reid Miles worked as art-director/graphic-designer for
Blue Note Records from about 1956 to 1966...Brilliant!

LP covers from AdamsMorioka’s blog Burning Settlers Cabin http://www.burningsettlerscabin.com/?tag=blue-note-records

MIDCENTURY PRINT SERIES

2010-08-03T16:37:00.000-07:00

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 01

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 02

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 03

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 04

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 05

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 06

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 07

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 08

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 09

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 10

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 11

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 12

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 13

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 14

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 15

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 16

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 17

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 18

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 19

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY 20

JIM WARD MORRIS MIDCENTURY PRINT SERIES

In my new series titled MIDCENTURY each collage exists completely as a high resolution digital image. All images available from this photo-based open edition series are expressed as digital pigment prints using museum quality archival ink and paper.
(print size 36X24” or 18X12”)

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 CalArts 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 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, Suzanne Muchnic, Constance Mallinson, Heather Allred, Virgin Records, Warner Brothers Records, Elektra Records, Lost Highway Records, Artemis, Artville, Getty Images, Weathered Backgrounds, 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 Kuhlenschmidt Gallery Los Angeles CA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions CA, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art CA, Artists 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

360-927-0956 JIM@JIMWARDMORRIS.COM

MIDCENTURY MODERN AMERICA

2010-07-13T21:36:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-12T12:28:00.000-07:00

IMAGE TITLE: MIDCENTURY 16

New print image size 36X24 and 18X12 (inches).

School Teacher

2010-05-31T17:04:00.000-07:00

School Of Rock!

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

2010-05-31T11:13:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-28T15:36:00.000-07:00

everything will be ok in the end.

if it is not ok,

it is not the end.

Vintage Portable Record Players

2010-01-05T12:07:00.000-08:00

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

GIRLS LOVE TURNTABLES

2009-09-25T10:10:00.001-07:00

this girl loves her turntable more than her shoes!

ANALOG MUSIC HI FI SOUND

2009-09-07T19:52:00.000-07:00

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

THE SOUND OF TOMORROW TODAY!

2009-09-03T16:35:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-23T15:46:00.000-07:00

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

Tremolux Fender Amp / Blackface or Blonde

2009-08-19T20:30:00.000-07:00

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

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

Blue Note Records Midcentury

2009-08-19T16:38:00.000-07:00

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

Eero Saarinen Womb Chair & Ottoman

2009-08-10T11:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-10T10:25:00.000-07:00

very cool Ball Chair designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963.

2001: A Space Odyssey

2009-05-28T15:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-07T19:22:00.000-07:00

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.

Pierre Koenig Architecture

2009-04-27T20:44:00.000-07:00

Pierre Koenig exterior.

Pierre Koenig interior.

Bob Dylan Elvis Presley Andy Warhol

2009-04-27T11:09:00.000-07:00

Gods 1, 2 & 3.

Modern Conveniences: Music in the Kitchen?

2009-04-23T13:23:00.000-07:00

Look how happy and satisfied she is...it's because of her
new music system.

It sounds way better than an iPod!

Jenn Ski Interviews Jim Ward Morris

2009-04-22T10:22:00.000-07:00

MIDCENTURY #16 JIM WARD MORRIS

The absolutely fabulous Jenn Ski ask if she could post an interview with me on her blog. I said yes! Why you might ask...because she has the best eye, the best style and the best blog in the world, so why not? The interview is about Carly and Huggins and Pearl and our cool Bellingham house built in 1956 and, it is also about me.

check-it-out at: JennSkiStudio.blogspot.com

MIES VAN DER ROHE

2009-04-15T10:55:00.000-07:00

quote from Mies van der Rohe "less is more."

I love this image of the Farnsworth House.

Stereo Blonde

2009-04-14T20:29:00.000-07:00

my favorite picture of a girl sitting on a stereo...there are many others, but this one is way cool.

film director Jim Jarmusch

2009-04-14T19:48:00.000-07:00

postmodern quote from Jim Jarmusch

Saul Bass

2009-02-25T17:08:00.000-08:00

This is my favorite Saul Bass movie poster.

MIDCENTURY MAD MEN

2009-01-06T19:13:00.000-08:00

Mad Men (the AMC TV show) is probably the best place to check-out great looking midcentury architecture, fashion, furniture, popular culture and urban life coolness. The only problem I have with this show is the stories are so depressing and the characters are all so completely unlikeable. The next time Carly and I watch Mad Men with all its perfect midcentury scenes we plan to turn the sound off completely. Every image from this series is worth watching, but only if you do not listen to the dialog.

With just The Crystals or Brenda Lee or Sam Cooke or Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra music playing in the background, I could watch every episode.

MIDCENTURY HOUSE IN BELLINGHAM, WA

2009-01-06T13:24:00.000-08:00

Carly and I recently bought a very cool pad in Bellingham Washington. The home was built in 1956 and as far as we can tell...it may be the only flat roof, placed on the property at an angle, floor to ceiling windows, unchanged interior, atomic age house with an atrium, still standing in this little town.

MIDCENTURY POSTMODERN MAN

2008-12-27T10:20:00.000-08:00

art and design by JIM WARD MORRIS

Jim Ward Morris studied Art & Design with John Baldessari and Lou Danziger at California Institute of the Arts receiving a BFA & MFA.

The Art & Design by Jim Ward Morris has been commissioned, collected and reviewed by: 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 & Barbara Benedek, William Bro, Craig Bennet, Andrew Schwartz, Ian Charles, Colin Gardner, Hunter Drohojowska, Suzanne Muchnic, Constance Mallinson, Heather Allred, Virgin Records, Warner Brothers Records, Elektra Records, Lost Highway Records, Artemis, Getty Images, Weathered Backgrounds, 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.

Plus, Jim Ward Morris has participated in shows with: Jan Kesner Gallery Los Angeles CA, Ace Gallery Los Angeles CA, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery Los Angeles CA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions CA, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art CA, Artists Space Gallery New York NY, Amy Lipton Gallery New York NY, and the Nightlight Lounge Gallery Bellingham WA.