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Georgia native J. Morgan Puett (b. 1957) emerged in the mid-1980s as a fashion designer. Her distinctive style, which drew from sources that explored the history of garments, were hand-made, crafted of hand-dyed natural fabrics, often in wrinkled, informal states. Her quirky SoHo retail space was heralded for its evocative environment—a bewildering combination of store, art installation, architectural remnant, and factory. Puett contiues her practice largely as an installation artist. Her projects ambitiously engage communities, localized culture, and historical sites, drawing from traditions of costume and labor, personal appearance and adornment. From these projects, experiential relationships emerge that break down barriers of craft and object, social and archeological, tangible and precious. She lives and works on her farm in rural Pennsylvania. Since 2001, Puett has focused her artistic practice on large-scale collaborative projects that mine her interest in the role of fashion and garments on culture, both historical and contemporary, in efforts that honor labor and “missing links to history.” Recent projects have been commissioned by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum; the Abington Art Center, Philadelphia; Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; Artex, Arnhern, Amsterdam; The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia; Wave Hill, Bronx, New York; the Serpentine Gallery, London; and the 2002 Spoletto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Puett received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Exhibitions and works:
(of, with, as, for, them, and, it) Workstylings, Alexander Gray Associates, 2010
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J. Morgan Puett, Alexander Gray Associates, 2006
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RN Portfolio
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Cottage Industry Project
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The Ladies Field Club of York Project
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Lost Meeting Project
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RN
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Manhattan Tartan Project
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J.Morgan Puett Corporation
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The Grafter's Shack Project
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