Sarah Morejohn

Dirty Fall - Blue Pink Botanical Flowers Pattern Drawing Shaped Paper, 2020

2020

For Morejohn, the act of drawing is simultaneously a way of being lost and of arriving. The rhythms, repetitions and artifacts of the making are integral to the experience. Time and patience morph into observations like that of a scientist, explorer, astronomer, revealing different possibilities of life, tenderness and longing. Morejohn’s drawings are a memento of native plants and hikes in the Pacific Northwest, where she was born. The colors she uses to trigger a memory of a specific plant as if it were squeezed and mashed, its juices dropped onto a surface, that then reorganizes its intricacy. Morejohn’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is in the permanent collection of Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York and the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. She earned a BFA from the University of Oregon. Morejohn lives and works in New Jersey.