Van Gogh Through a Pinhole
I'm beyond honored to have had my recent work from France, "On the Ground: In the Footsteps of van Gogh", written about in the Washinton Post. Sebastian Smee's generous and intelligent writing captured the process and ideas behind the work, and reading his descriptions of working in the field brought me back to Provence. I'm proud of this work, and excited to share it all with you.
Full Press List
2025
This Exhibition Bridges the Gap Between Photography and Art, The Phoblographer, Nilofer Khan, January 27th, 2025
Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable at the Clark Art Institute, Upstate Diary, David Ebony, January 6th, 2025
Morell Revisits the Masters Through Lens & Texture (PDF), Artscope Magazine, Marjorie Kaye, January 3rd, 2025
At the Clark A Photographer Pays Homage to Two Great Painters (PDF), The Boston Globe, Mark Feeney, January 2nd, 2025
2024
Art Review: At the Clark, Abelardo Morell Captures the Spirit of Monet and Constable’s Landscapes (PDF), The Berkshire Eagle, Jennifer Huberdeau, December 18th, 2024
The Culture Show Podcast: Abelardo Morell, WGBH, Jared Bowen, December 17th, 2024
Clark Art Institute opens an exhibition by contemporary photographer Abelardo Morell, Art Daily, November 24th, 2024
A New Way of Seeing Familiar Places is on the Walls at the Clark Institute, Berkshires Week, Ellen Spear, November 22nd, 2024
Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura Image of Courtyard Building, Lacock Abbey, Smarthistory, Elizabeth Siegel, November 1st, 2024
Abelardo Morell: Reinventing Photography, Real Photo Show, Michael Chovan-Dalton, October 28th, 2024
Abelardo Morell: Grounding Landscape, Talking Pictures, Alasdair Foster, October 12th, 2024
Abelardo Morell: Writing with Light, D’Architectures, Anne Fremy, January 4th, 2024
2023
Creative Spaces, What Will You Remember, Elin Spring, December 14th, 2023
Chance Encounters, Edition 20: Abelardo Morell, I Require Art, Laura Heyrman, December 2, 2023
The Rooms Where it Happened: A New MFA Show Looks at Photographer's Studios, The Boston Globe, Mark Feeney, November 27th, 2023
New Ground @Edwynn Houk, Collector Daily, Loring Knoblauch, November 29th, 2023
New Ground - Alternative Photography in Dialogue with 19th Century Painting, Lens Culture, Rebecca Horne
Abelardo Morell Invites You to Stand in the Shadow of Monet, Design Milk, November 21st, 2023
Abelardo Morell - Camera Obscura, Universo Foto, November 16th, 2023
The 100 Greatest New York City Artworks, Ranked, ARTnews, Alex Greenberger, August 29th, 2023
Surrealism in Everyday Life Takes Centerstage in Houston - Abelardo Morell Pushes the Dreamy Limits, Paper City, Ericka Schiche, August 18th, 2023
Ansel Adams: Capturing the Majesty of Nature, CBS News, Conor Knighton, July 2, 2023
Abelardo Morell Provides Exactly What is Promised in His New Exhibit, Daily Utah Chronicle, Audrey Hall, April 12th, 2023
The Illusive and Expanding Marvels of Abelardo Morell, Artists of Utah, Geoff Wichert, April 10th, 2023
Abelardo Morell - Drawing Matter, Drawing Matter, Rebecca Connor Reading, April 6th, 2023
Abelardo Morell: In the Footsteps of Van Gogh, Lenscratch, Aline Smithson, January 14th, 2023
2022
Abelardo Morell, Alchemist of Photography, Podcast Interview, October, 2022
Van Gogh Through a Pinhole, The Washington Post, Sebastian Smee, October 2nd, 2022
Highlights from the Armory Show, Collector Daily, Loring Knoblauch, September 12th, 2022
Morell: Changing Lanes @Edwynn Houk, Collector Daily, Loring Knoblauch, January 6th, 2022
Caribbean American Heritage Month: Abelardo Morell, Davis Art, Karl Cole, June 13th, 2022
2021
Featured Photographer: Abelardo Morell, Digital Transitions, Carson Boykin February 4th, 2021
Cliché-Verre Talk: Abelardo Morell, The Clark Art Institute, May 6, 2021
Perfect Bound with Jennifer Yoffy, Yoffy Press, April 15, 2021
In Photographer Abelardo Morell’s Italy, Life Upside Down Is Still Beautiful, WBUR, Pamela Reynolds, September 2, 2021
In a Creating Light: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell, Skinner, James Leighton, September 8, 2021
This exhibition explores life in the American South through stunning photographs, The Washington Post, Kenneth Dickerman, September 27, 2021
The Shoes of Our Lost Icons Are Still Full of Life, The New York times Magazine, December 26th, 2021
How I Demolished My Life, The Atlantic, Honor Jones, December 28th, 2021
Write Around Portland: Ansel Adams in Our Time, Portland Art Museum, 2021
Abelardo Morell, Nearest Truth, 2021
Vertigo and Tent Camera Photographs, For-Site Foundation, 2021
2020
Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom, Phaidon Editors, 2020
Camera in Camera, Places Journal, 2020
2019
Focal Point: Abelardo Morell, Focal Point Podcast, Karen Irvine, 2019
Abelardo Morell Considers the World Through a Pinhole, B&H Explora Blog, Jill Waterman, April, 2019
These Photographers Make Surprisingly Fresh Photos of Flowers, VICE, John Feinstein, February 14, 2019
On Photography: Abelardo Morell, 1948-Present, Photofocus, Kevin Ames, February 24th, 2019
Photographer Abelardo Morell Shares His Views, Milton Academy, February 28th, 2019
2018
Abelardo Morell's Water / Fern / Ink, Art of the Photogravure, 2018
Garden and Visual Pleasure in After Monet, Exit, 2018
Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the 60’s, Mark Cheetham, February 15, 2018
Abelardo Morell: Flowers for Lisa II @Edwynn Houk, Richard B. Woodward, Collector Daily, December 17, 2018
‘Ansel Adams in Our Time’ Review: Reconsidering a Mountainous Career, Richard B. Woodward, December 12, 2018
Luc Sante on the Year’s Best Photography Books, Luc Sante, The New York Times, December 4, 2018
The Photography of Ansel Adams Is Coming to the MFA, Adam Weddle, Boston Magazine, November 29, 2018
Delirious Photographs of Flowers Which Began as a Birthday Gift, Anya Angert, AnOther Magazine, November 5, 2018
His Three Loves: Photography, Art History and Lisa, Lawrence Weschler, The New York Times, November 5, 2018
Notable Photo Books of 2018, PDN Online, Winter, 2018
32 Books that Dropped Our Jaws in 2018, Humble Arts Foundation, Winter, 2018
Spectacular Surreal Layered Images, Beautiful Now, Winter 2018
Delirious Photographs of Flowers Which Began as a Birthday Gift, Anya Angert, AnOther Magazine, November 5, 2018
At the BPL, the art of getting from here to there, Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe, October 18, 2018
At the Addison: Artists further the legacy of Paul Manship’s Starfield estate, Keith Powers, October, 2018
Abelardo Morell’s New Book of Stunning Flower Studies, PDN Online, October, 2018
Book Review: Flowers for Lisa, LensCulture, October, 2018
Abelardo Morell: Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic Invention, Aline Smithson, Lenscratch, October 5, 2018
These Artists Are Changing the Nature of Landscape Photography, Liz Logan, Introspective Magazine, July 29, 2018
In Denver, Landscapes Soaked, Digitized and Irradiated, Susan Delson, Wall Street Journal, June 8, 2018
Flowers for Lisa: Abelardo Morell’s Enduring Gift of Images, Jill Waterman, B&H Explora Blog, May, 2018
Revealing the Gardens’ Secrets, Jordan G. Teicher, The New York Times, March 15, 2018
2017
Flowers for Lisa, Foreword by Abelardo Morell and Afterword by Lisa McElaney, 2017
Flowers for Lisa, Conversation with Lawrence Weschler, 2017
Flowers for Lisa, Notes on the Photographs, 2017
To the Attic: Virginia Woolf and Abelardo Morell, Robert Adams, The Paris Review, October 4, 2017
A Photographer’s Donation to a Museum Honors Its Security Guards, Allison Meier, Hyperallergic, September 5, 2017
Photographer Donates Thoreau- Inspired Artwork to the Morgan, Andrew R. Chow, The New York Times, August 20, 2017
In The Company of Constable, Liz Jobey, The Financial Times, July 21, 2017
A Trip to the Tiny Washington Flower Farm That Has Become a Worldwide Sensation, Cathy Horyn, New York Magazine, July 10, 2017
Extolling Walden’s Hallowed Shores, James Foritano, Artscope Magazine, May 2017
Abelardo Morell: Flowers for Lisa at Edwynn Houk, Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily, April 21, 2017
Exploring the Language of Flowers, Dilys Ng, Time Lightbox, March 9, 2017
Celebrating Thoreau at 200 With Eye-Opening Shows, Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe, February 2017
Camera Obscura Images Mark Bicentennial of Thoreau’s Birth, The Boston Globe, 2017
The Visual Delights of the Camera Obscura, CBS News, 2017
2016
Capturing the Topsy-Turvy Fantasies of the Camera Obscura, Photowhoa, Freddy Martinez, June 16, 2016
Altered Landscapes, Landscape Stories, L25, Fall 2016
Brown Daily Herald, Fall 2016
Topagraphie de L’Art, Fall 2016.
WideWalls, September 2016.
The Cuban Missile. Musee Magazine, No. 15., 2016
Issue No. 3 La Libertad Artistica, Steadfast Magazine, 2016
Interview with Yale University Radio, WYBCX, 2016
Brown Visual Arts Presents: Abelardo Morell, Brown University, 2016
2015
Abelardo Morell’s Photographs Revisit Last Winter. The Boston Globe, Mark Feeney. May 2015
Abelardo Morell: Mind of Winter, Bowdoin College, May 2015
A Mind of Winter: Photographs by Abelardo Morell, Art New England, 2015
2014
Conversation with Abelardo Morell and Peter Essick. National Geographic Magazine’s Proof Blog, April 2014.
A Room With a View, Artillery Magazine, Colin Westerbeck, March 2014.
Abelardo Morell and the Magic of the Camera Obscura, SF MOMA, 2014.
Innocence and Photographic Experience in the Work of Abelardo Morell, Frost Art Museum, 2014
The High, Abelardo Morell “The Universe Next Door”, KAOP, 2014
Abelardo Morell, "The Universe Next Door", The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014
2013
Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door, thisistomorrow, Una Dimitrijevic, 2013
New View of National Parks, National Geographic Magazine, Tom O’Neil, 2013
Wonderlands, Elizabeth Siegel, 2013
Cuando el mundo entra por la ventana, El Pais, Ivan de la Nuez, 14 de octubre de 2013
Book Review: The Universe Next Door, Photo-Eye Blog, Colin Pantall, October 31, 2013
International Orange: Abelardo Morell, Tent Camera Photographs, FOR-SITE Foundation, January, 2013
Abelardo Morell, Art in America, Kyle MacMillan, September 3, 2013
From the Ground Up, The Tent Camera Photographs of Abelardo Morell, Photograph Magazine, Jason Foumberg, July 7th, 2013
2011
Rooms With A View. National Geographic Magazine. Tom O’Neill. May 2011.
Abelardo Morell, Cristina Franzoni. Zoom Magazine, Winter 2011. (PDF)
2010
May Castleberry, Oliver Sacks, and The Island of Rota, Photobooth, The New Yorker Online. December 3, 2010.
Abelardo Morell, PDN Photo of the Day. November 17, 2010.
Goings On About Town: Abelardo Morell, The New Yorker. November 15, 2010.
Cycadic Art, ARTnews, Rebecca Roberston, November 2010.
Seeing New York Through Leonardo’s Eye, New York Magazine. Miranda Siegel, October 17, 2010.
Abelardo Morell: Camera Obscura Project, The Monthly Photographic Art Magazine, Vol 258, October 2010.
Abelardo Morell, Forum Latino-Americano de Fotografia de Sao Paulo. Alexandre Belem, Brazil, 2010
Abelardo Morell, Niche: In or Out, Interviews with Contemporary American Photographic Artists. Tingting Xu, China, 2010 (text in Chinese)
Abelardo Morell, Chinese Popular Photography, China, February 2010 (text in Chinese)
Abelardo Morell, China Photopress, China, January 2010 (text in Chinese)
Lenscere alapozott muvek, Fotomuveszet, Hungary. January 2010 (text in Hungarian)
Camera Obscura: Martino Marangoni in Conversation with Abelardo Morell. Fantom Photographic Quarterly, Italy. Issue 02, Winter 2010
2009
Fotos de un mundo hecho de libros, Pagina 12, Argentina. Piroska Csuri, April 14, 2009 (text in Spanish)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Exit Magazine, text by Lewis Carroll, images by Abelardo Morell. Issue 33–2009
Domande a Abelardo Morell, Hippolyte Bayard Photography Blog, an interview with Abelardo Morell, January 13, 2009 (some text in Italian)
2008
Abelardo Morell, DCView Photography Blog, book review Ching-Kuang Shene, December 18, 2008 (text in Taiwanese)
Conjuring With Light: The Contemporary Works of Abelardo Morell, Photoicon, Ian McKay, Issue 4 2008
Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, November 1, 2008.
In Focus | Abelardo Morell, The Moment: New York Times Style Magazine Blog, Scott Hall, October 7, 2008
Abelardo Morell, Pictures in Pictures, Art Kopel, Arthur Kopel, October 7, 2008
Morell the Magnificent, Photo District News, Anthony Lasala, September 2008
Abelardo Morell, The Year In Pictures, James Danziger, September 22, 2008
The Unfamiliar in the Familiar, Chinese Photography, No. 15, Xu Tingting, August 2008. Interview
Abelardo Morell , UTATA Sunday Salon, Greg Fallis, July 2008. (PDF;391KB)
Outside In and Upside Down, The Yale Review, Vol. 96 No.3 Bonni Costello, July 2008
Morell’s Photos Balance Austerity and Playfulness, The Boston Globe, Mark Feeney, July 20, 2008 (PDF; 56kb)
Morell Mixes it Upright, Art New England, Christine Temin, June/July 2008
Abelardo Morell at Bernard Toale, Big Red and Shiny, Rita Lombardi, June 16, 2008
Looking at the Obscure, PLAY New Haven and Registro CT; Nicole D’Andrea, June, 2008
Picturing the Future at the Toale Gallery, The Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, June 4, 2008
2007
Traces of Things Past, Marta Braun, Taken With Time, 2007
Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary, The Boston Globe, Mark Feeney, November 2, 2007 (PDF; 80kb)
Masterworks: An Eye for the Unusual, New England Home Magazine, Christine Temin, July/August Issue, 2007
La Sombra y el asombro, Juan Antonio Molina, July 18, 2007
DRIVETIME, The online video blog by the artist Ravi Jain. April 29, 2007
Abelardo Morell at Danziger Projects, The New York Sun, William Meyers, March 22, 2007
Abelardo Morell at Bonni Benrubi, Art in America, Edward Leffingwell, March, 2007
Culture Watch : Upside Down and Inside Out, Departures, Vince Aletti, March/April, 2007
2006
An Audio Interview with Abelardo Morell, Lens Culture, 2006
Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, October 23, 2006
Best In Show, The Village Voice, R.C. Baker, October 12, 2006
Photographer Wins DeCordova’s Rappaport Prize, The Boston Globe, 2006
The Library of Water, Exit Magazine Ivan de la Nuez, 2006 — and en Español
Abelardo Morell at Michel Soskine in Madrid, Exit Express, Rosa Olivares, 2006, en Español
2005
Beelden uit de baarmoeder, Observatorium, Arno Haijtema, 2005, in Dutch
Cars, boats, babes — but is it art?, Boston Phoenix Jeffrey Gantz, 2005
Natural Wonders, San Diego Union-Tribune Robert Pincus, 2005
Una pàgina con vistas, Revista de Cultura Lateral, Ferran Mateo, 2005
Favorite Books of 2005, L.A. Times, Geoff Dyer, 2005
Introduction to Abelardo Morell – by Richard Woodward, Phaidon Press, 2005 in English, en Español, en Français auf Deutsch, in Italiano
Renaissance of Wonder, Chicago Tribune Alan G. Artner, 2005
Worlds Turned Upside Down, Chicago Reader, Stephen Longmire, 2005
Surprising Monuments, Boston Phoenix Christopher Millis, 2005
Grand Images Through a Tiny Opening, Photo District News, Christopher D. Ringwald, 2005
2004
Light Bound: A Love Affair Between Books and Light, Christian Peterson and Simon Anderson, 2004
About Time –Abelardo Morell at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, The New Yorker, 2004
Camera Obscura Book Review, Scientific American, 2004
Introduction to Camera Obscura by Luc Sante, Bullfinch Press, 2004
Afterword, Camera Obscura — Abelardo Morell, 2004
Realism Magico Cotidiano, E Carlos Espinosa Dominguez, 2004
Spirits Emerge in Black and White, Sun Sentinel, Florida Matt Schudel, 2004
Essay from the Solo Exhibit at the Frost Art Museum of FIU Andy Grundberg, 2004, en Español, en Portuguese
2003
Artist Interview, Identity Theory, Robert Birnbaum, January 2, 2003
Dutch Painting: The Poetry of Everyday Life: A Talk with Abelardo Morell and Laura McPhee — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003
Review of Bernard Toale Gallery Exhibit, Artforum — Francine Koslow Miller, 2003
Art vs. Ideas: Two Approaches to Photographing Books, OP Magazine — Bill Jay, 2003
2002
A Book of Books Review, Bookforum — Albert Mobilio, 2002
Preface to A Book of Books — Nicholson Baker, 2002
On Writers and Writing; No Frigate Like a Book, New York Times Book Review — Margo Jefferson, 2002
2000
Following Alice through the looking-glass, Tema Celeste Contemporary Art Magazine — Pierre De Roo, 2000
The Universe Next Door: A Review of Abelardo Morell at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, U-Turn Online Art Journal — Jill Waterman, 2000
1999
Aldrich Museum, Future Present, High School Student Writing, 1999
Where Child’s Play and Just Plain Facts Rendezvous on Film, New York Times Sunday — Deborah Weisgall, 1999
Abelardo Morell: Take One, The Photo Review — April Pilz, 1999
Abelardo Morell: Take Two, The Photo Review – Nancy Brokaw, 1999
Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye - Diana Gaston, 1999
1998
Essay from Face to Face: Photographs at the Gardner Museum – Jennifer R. Gross, 1998
Essay from Face to Face: Photographs at the Gardner Museum –Charles Simic, 1998
Pictured Pages, Cleveland Museum of Art — Tom E. Hinson, 1998
Morell turns the Gardner into Playful Art, The Boston Sunday Globe — Christine Temin, 1998
Photography’s Multiple Roles: Abelardo Morell, The Museum of Contemporary Photography — Eugina Parry, 1998
1997
Remarks by Abelardo Morell Upon Receiving an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, Bowdoin College Campus News, 1997
1996
Abelardo Morell at the Boston Anthenaeum, Art In America — Ann Wilson Lloyd, 1996
The Big Picture, The New Yorker — Mark Singer, 1996
1995
Introduction to A Camera in a Room: Photographs by Abelardo Morell — Richard B. Woodward, 1995
You Can Judge Morell’s Books by Their Covers, The Boston Globe — Christine Temin, 1995
Review of Bonni Benrubi Gallery Exhibit, Artforum — David Levi Strauss, 1995
1994
New Photography 10, Museum of Modern Art, Press Release, 1994
View With a Room, Mirabella — Richard B. Woodward, 1994