J. Morgan Puett

J. Morgan Puett is known for an interdisciplinary approach to art, combining traditional artistry with architecture and fashion, and frequently collaborating with others.  She has had many projects over the past 20 years that incorporate a sense of space and a desire to recreate a southern rural element in more urban settings.

Puett grew up in rural Georgia.  She moved to New York City after receiving both a BFA and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Many of Puett’s projects concern her interest in the use of space and environment, as well as clothing, two ideas that are brought together in this installation.  Previous works include The Manhattan Tartan Project, a project with Suzanne Bocanegra in which they designed new tartans to represent the population of New York, with different plaids representing different neighborhoods in the city.  The Ladies Field Club of York, a collaboration with Mark Dion, was most recently on display at the Christine Burgin Gallery in New York.  Puett’s most recent work, Cottage Industry, was exhibited as part of the Spoleto festival in Charleston, SC.  For this project, she created a woman’s multi-part outfit, in the process, wove a garment that spoke of social history, the history of women’s work at home and the realities of textile industry.

For more information on the artist, visit her website at http://www.jmorganpuett.com