Mark Morrisroe

Untitled (Janet with Cat), 1985/1996, chromogenic print (negative sandwich) retouched with ink, 16 x 11 in. (sheet), 4.25 x 3.25 inches (image), © Estate of Mark Morrisroe [Ringier Collection], Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Mark Morrisroe

Pat Hearn Reclining, 1982, chromogenic print (negative sandwich) retouched with ink, 14 x 11 in. (sheet), © Estate of Mark Morrisroe [Ringier Collection], Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Mark Morrisroe

Untitled (Flower Study), c.1986, Photogram, 10 x 8 inches (sheet), © Estate of Mark Morrisroe [Ringier Collection], Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Mark Morrisroe

I Dream Of Jeanne (Stephen Tashjian's Head), 1983-4, chromogenic print (negative sandwich) retouched with ink, 20 x 16 in. (sheet), © Estate of Mark Morrisroe [Ringier Collection], Fotomuseum Winterthur.

The title of the exhibition, Hello from Bertha, refers to a signature image by the artist from 1983-4, which is a “promotional still” for Morrisroe’s Super 8 film of the same name, which itself “was a trashy drag drama based on the eponymous 1946 Tennessee Williams one-act play about a dying, penniless prostitute in a low-class bordello.”[Stuart Comer]

Mark Morrisroe's Hello from Bertha at Clamp Art