Sanchez_Rafael_99Objects on Ma by Visual AIDS

Audio Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art.

http://whitney.org/Events/99ObjectsUntitledMorrisroe

Rafael Sánchez and Mark Morrisroe met as neighbors moving into the same building in Jersey City in 1985 when Morrisroe arrived in the NY area from Boston. They helped each other as young artists and confidants. Sánchez became a caregiver to Morrisroe in his last years; the complex nature of that experience is poetically chronicled in Sánchez's essay Panorama With Hood Ornament in the influential Boston School exhibition catalogue (ICA, Boston, 1995). Sánchez discussed his personal recollections of Morrisroe, Morrisroe's artistic process, and the Whitney's Morrisroe work "Untitled."