ADRIENNE MORROW

Aplombs, Digital Collage and GIFS Animation, October 6th, 2024, duration (02:31)

Adrienne had created a digital collage and used found GIFs to create a 3 part video piece combined as one to read off personal poems of how many women look upon themselves. When doing so, each part is read aloud in a distorted voice representing one’s personal thoughts like through a verbal diary that is half private and exposed to others and each part is animated differently to fit and match with what words are being expressed.

CBeaut.MultiChannel, September 2nd, 2024, duration (04:01)

A 4 minute video piece complied of beauty commercials and PSA’s showing how women are expected to perfect themselves using certain products, accompanied by older internet GIF graphs surrounding the footage. The audio is looped, delayed, and edited. The purpose of this project is to create a multi-channel looping video piece.

Prima-Donnas, she’s beauty and she’s grace, September 8th, 2024, duration (01:29)

This solo video project includes a compilation of older internet gifs with distorted audio from an ASMR video featuring a mean girl overlaid with Skylar Spence’s song “Prom King” playing in the background. The intention of this piece is to symbolize the societal pressures and expectations related to appearance.

Work Body Work, Still Image, November 3rd, 2024, duration (11:48)

Adrienne had used a drawing prop mannequin, a projector strapped down from a footstool and an empty room to create a wall projection where a mannequin was looking halfway towards back to their image (of work). She also practiced other words of projecting either away or on the body itself.

The Collection, Projection Play, November 6th, 2024, duration loop (00:42)

Adrienne had decided to reuse one of her earlier works and play around with projecting it onto her hand when doing so, she was able to play around with color by chance filming from her phone with the video projection. Within this piece the original projects audio is muted and replaced with Mac DeMarco’s Don Juan song.

Collaborative Broadsides, November 7th, 2024,7 x 7, relief print plate

Adrienne’s older print project, “Money Consumes You,” is being incorporated into a current Studio 2 relief project. As this class holds a brainstorming session and identifies two impactful topics: the repeal of Roe V. Wade and mental health issues amongst students. Each student researched one them using credible sources found and selected a resonant quote to design a 7” x 7” broadside using the skills of typography. Later on these designs were etched into real printing plates with a laser cutter and printed in various combinations to create larger collaborative broadsides. However, within this project most prints are new, some incorporate prints and other subjects from past student work. The display of each piece evolved organically, featuring a simple color palette and was to be range by color to create a visual tension, display shared thoughts from varied sources and was printed he day after the election.

Miss Inattentive, Still Image of an Digital Collage Animation, November 11th, 2024, duration (01:05)

This is a digital collage animation that plays around with animating pinna and blue colors in a vibrant way to match a Arctic Monkeys song Snap Out Of It. This piece represents in how women can’t think for their own and thus, can’t exactly snap of it. Rather women have to tune out their brains and go with whatever they’re told to do.

Lady Tear Eyed, Claymation, November 13th, 2024, 18 frames, duration (00:03)

Adrienne had learned how to make a Claymation (stop-motion) piece from one of her class lectures having artist Casey Alfstad give a artist talk of their work and a demo/workshop to learn how to animate and work with clay. Adrienne had used this an opportunity to make a character crying onto itself and to its ground.

Are ya Ready Moony?, November 15th, 2024, 24 x 36 inches canvas

This is a project where Adrienne had used multiple print outs of one her collages to create a singular collage pattern across the canvas. While doing so she had used Super Matte Medium and GALC 100 to glue and give the canvas a nice gloss texture in case there would be any other materials used on it that it doesn’t ruin the quality of the prints.

STOP Talking at ME, November 20th, 2024, 12 x 12 x 1/4 inches, birch plywood

Adrienne had created a design using Rhino (a CAD/3D modeling program) to draw a self-portrait of herself and write over 200+ letters and words of using a mixture of positive and condescending tones over how saying certain phrases can cut deep to someone. So, she used different words at different sizes where it can or can’t be a mixture of readability to see the harm in the effect of what one says to another. As this project is to emphasize the significance of having a voice and to see how any kind of word matters. With this Adrienne used the laser cutter at different grains of power and speed, etching, cutting, engraving and inlaid veneer since this project needed multiple laser-cutting components to it.

Plastic Playthings, Still Image, Analog Collages used from L I F E P O P (displayed on alt. work), December 4th, 2024, duration 01:00

Adrienne had created 4 short animations varying of different found sounds of Barbie commercials, and women’s PSA’s of how one should be beautiful and just like a Barbie. Within this animation Adrienne used multiple forms of animation techniques through the use of Adobe Premier and Procreate messing with images quality, variations of colors (being liquified) and more.

Lip Smacking, December 4th, 2024, 3D Plastic Prints, 6.40 mm

Adrienne had created multiple 3D print outs in PLA (Plastic) of Lip charms. Using a 2+ Ultimaker 3D printing machine. In this particular project she needed to reference an object by size and shape however, she also learned how to play with it as well. By making flat lips to match the original (up top) and puckered out lips to enhance the function of this object.

Faded Morose, Still Image, Digital Collage Animation, January 7th-8th, 2025, duration 01:07

Adrienne created a digital collage animation where it flashes between pink and blue colors yet also, records her own voice and uses found and archived clips of certain beauty commercials within this piece along with interacting with the dialogue from said commercials.

Flummoxed Cotten Tail, Digital Collage Still Image, duration 00:11, January 27th, 2025

Adrienne plays around with digital collages but this time she wanted to integrate her styles of liquifying colors (through the tools of Procreate) and practice how that changes a digital image-collage. Along with that she uses a song from Les-Numbness to see how isolated this piece can feel with no animation being used at all.

Learning to GLAM, Still Image, Digital Collage Animation, January 29th-30th, 2025, duration 02:13

Adrienne was playing again with using her voice and found Prelinger Archies films such as How do you know its Love (1950) and How much Affection? (1957) along with using a found soundbite of woman crying to play with an interactive dialogue of inner and outer thoughts of oneself.

Foodstuffs Darlin, Still Image, Digital Collage Animation, January 29th, 2025, duration 00:49

Adrienne starts to practice her animation skills and learns how effective her work could be with using some animation and still imagery along with using static and music and no additional voices being used throughout this piece. The song that is used in this piece is Libet’s Delay-Caretaker.

Prettify the Devoted, Still Image, Digital Collage Animation, January 31st-February 1st, 2025, duration 01:29

Adrienne used Procreate and Adobe Premier to heavily animate her digital collage animation yet she also used different clips of dialogue titled A Mother’s Love from the Ginny and Georgia show along with background music from Feel it All Around by Washed Out that is heavily edited, distorted and echoed while highlighting issues of self-worth and living through for someone else.

The Heart Fills, Multi-Media, February 8th, 2025

Adrienne had used found and bought objects to play around with reflection and negative commentary of ones self to be written on mirrors. She used a mirror, disco heart (to distort the imagery for those who come close into seeing it in person), aluminum foil, and wrapping paper but also used lipsticks, hot glue, nail polishes and eye powder.

Plastic Perfection Melts, Still Image, Digital Collage Animation, March 21st, 2025, duration 00:51

Adrienne made a digital collage animation with a melting and waving effects along with practicing more editorial techniques from Adobe Premier and Procreate. She also used her own voice and found sounds one from GoodNight Moon’s ASMR Mean Girl Video, a soundbite of a woman laughing, and used her own mouse and ruffling/shuffling of plastic bags. There is also some quiet background music from Nakata7 Aesthetics.

Pulchritudinous Losses, Still Images, Digital Collage Animation, March 22-23rd, 2025, duration 00:59

Adrienne took a picture of herself and animated it to where it always tries breaking, swirling away or reverts back into itself. It is and feels very repetitive and can feel like a vortex of the mind and body losing itself. Due to the negative commentaries from both men and women who push certain standards for others. However, for the sounds within this piece she uses clear found audio from educational videos such as Changing Behavior (1950-60’s) and The Trouble with Women (1959) to make the words feel more real while the imagery has an emotional distortion.

FL3x Space

Texas State Galleries

Screening

Beauty Blotte, JCM, October 17th, 2024, duration (11:48)

After the screening follows a q/a session located in the Joann Cole Mitte (JCM) Building at Texas State University and partnered with Texas State Galleries.

This program highlights Adrienne’s work, where she focusses on the issues of womanhood and al the trials one goes through regarding body image, appearance, and more. This screening showcases various video projects in which she uses collages for animations, her self and other projects made in analog to be filmed with and recently is using GIFs as well. Along with the program, she has worked with many faculty members to help curate this screening and two students who have written a didactic essay to analyze her work.

FEED SPACE PROJECT of Beauty Blotte Screening, (various Works), Multi-Channel Color Video and Sound, Duration 11:48, 2024

Beauty Blotte, FEED SPACE, SMTX, October 24th, 2024, duration (11:48)

After showcasing Adrienne’s work during her first Solo Exhibition she had the opportunity to also screen it in two FEED Spaces located at the Joann Cole Mitte (JCM) Building at Texas State University and is partnered with Texas State Galleries. Within this space it “presents moving images by worldwide creators that nourish a deeper understanding of expanded media and contemporary art.” This was first displayed on October 24th and will last till December.

RHYTHM OF RISO a Texas State University Exhibition at LBJ Student Center (LBJSC)

Riso Head, LBJSC, SMTX, April 28th, 2024, 8.5 x 11 inches cut to various sizes

This was a project that was accepted to the Rhythm of Riso Exhibition where multiple artists such as students and staff came together to exhibit their Risograph works. This exhibition was a collaboration from an Art and Design organization from Texas State University called PawPrintz (a Risogragh club) to showcase work that can “explore the colorful world of Risography.” This will be up for display on campus LBJ Student Center on its 3rd floor by October 25th till December 6th.

Video Work Shown at The 22nd Austin Studio Tour and Kick-off Party

Body to Body, Congress Ave and GWCM ATX, November 1st, 2024, duration (00:50)

My montage project was accepted to be shown during the Austin WEST Studio Tour played on loop with other artists for the theme of Metamorphosis at 4201 S Congress Ave, Street 323, Austin, TX 78745 from 12-6 p.m. on the 9-10th weekend and Kick-off Party at 8:00 p.m. from the George Washington Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina Street, Austin, Texas, 78702 from November 1st.

HomeGrown (Portfolio) Exhibition at Buda

HomeGrown, Portfolio Exhibition, Various Works, Buda TX, December 3rd, 2024

Adrienne had collaborated with her classmates to learn how to exhibit as community. Through this experience she learned how to market their group by creating their poster and the QR code for all attendees to attend with (which is now disabled). However, the goal of this show was to port vowers into a home they never knew existed, through a variety of works displayed such as paintings, ceramics, photography an video reflecting a vasts spectrum of their lived experiences and explore the self with creating a homage for everything they were and are yet to become.

Curator and Exhibited with the Expanded Media Collective for Mothership Studios’s 3rd year of the San Marcos Studio Tour

Expanded Media’s Opening Call, Video Compilation of various student and officer works, Saturday's and Sunday’s, April 5th-6th and 12th-13th, 2025 at 12:00-6:00 p.m.

Video works complied with multiple expanded media students at Texas State University and some other EXPMC officer works. As Adrienne (an EXPMC secretary) partner with her collective to collaborate and help exhibit their groups work for Mothership Studios San Marcos Studio Tour. Each student wither within the Expanded Media Collective, in the art program or outside of it each have work on every floor at JCM (Joan Cole Mitte) the art building. Along with this the EXPMC has their work shown on the first floor with the FEED Space (playing videos that have been previously complied) and other work at the HxWxD Gallery to showcase props or alternative rock as a representation of either a particular art group or individual artists and also used the fourth floor (the expanded media room), as a solo room with multiple chairs to view the works, and also seeing stickers, giving away flyers and may have food.

Mind the Gaps BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition at Texas State Galleries

Mind the Gaps, BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition, Various Works, San Marcos TX, May 5th-9th, 2025

Adrienne is collaborating with her classmates and friends to highlight how gaps represent art. As a group they use a concept of a door with a gap that allows light to leak from one room to another. This symbolizes the transition between different spaces and perspectives. The term “gaps” is used in the plural to represent the individual contributions of the 17 artists featured in this exhibition. Essentially, it emphasizes the connection between the art and the artist’s mind. It invites viewers to look closer and pay attention to the details.

MORE WORK AND SHOWS COMING SOON…