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Eric Randall Morris is a published, award-winning designer living and working in San Francisco. Formally trained as an architect, he holds an M. Arch from MIT (’14) and a B.S. Arch from Georgia Tech (’11) and has been engaged in the art and architecture field for the past 10 years. His graphics began as an attempt to catalogue an index of contemporary American Vernacular architecture(s) - which transformed into a continually evolving visual exercise of the elevations and facades of cities + suburbs around him. His work is about actualizing daydreams, exploring hyperrealities, and fabricating these new worlds through two dimensions The project took form as an experimental image series titled, “An American Hyperreality”, which has been featured in publications such as Curbed, Juxtapoz, Designboom, KooZA/rch, and Dezeen. Selected pieces were also incorporated into the interior redesign of the Intercontinental Hotel, with two pieces installed in each of the 500 hotel rooms. Recent projects include a photo essay in KooZA/rch’s Abstraction publication, an 80’-0” x 10’-0” mural for The W Hotel in Downtown Atlanta, GA, and a 75’-0” x 8’-6” three-dimensional installation for the new headquarters of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.
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Cirriculum Vitae Exhibition : Home / Sick Art Show
Client • The East Cut, Beyond Beyond Art Collective Location • The East Cut - Pop Up Gallery Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Image + Print Series : An American Hyperreality Client • Personal Project Location • Boston, MA / San Francisco, CA Jan 2017 - Ongoing
Art Commission : The Intercontinental San Francisco Client • Intercontinental Hotel Group, BraytonHughes Design Studio Location • 888 Howard St, San Francisco, CA Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Drawing + Print Collection : C O L O S S A L Client • Personal Project Location • San Francisco, CA Mar 2018 - May 2018
Mural : FOCUS SF - C O L O S S A L Mural no.1 Client • FOCUS Innovation Studio, Curate Art Group Location • 181 Howard St. San Francisco, CA Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Mural : W Atlanta Downtown - C O L O S S A L Mural no.2 Client • W Hotels, Puccini Group, Curate Art Group Location • 45 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
House : Harborview House
Client • Adele Naude Santos Location • 9 Wall St. Gloucester, MA May 2015 - May 2017
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c i r r i c u l u m EDUCATION Master of Architecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Sep 2011 - Dec 2014
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HONORS + DISTINCTIONS Nominated : SF MOMA SECA Art Award 2019 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Oct 2018
Bachelor of Science in Architecture Winner : Ello x Displate New Talent Collection Georgia Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Sep 2007 - May 2011
EXPERIENCE Designer BAR Architects • San Francisco, CA Mar 2018 - Current Master Planning / Rhino + Revit Modeling / Test-Fit Site Planning / Design Documents / Consultant Management / Graphic Design / Art Production / Mixed-Use Developments / Affordable Housing
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Displate x Ello.co May 2018
Winner : Fumogallery - Call For New Talent Apr 2018 One of 3 finalists selected to join the Italian online art gallery + design shop, Fumogallery. Selected artists were granted 1-year consignment agreements and promoted across digital platforms.
Best Submission : 2017 ArchDaily Architecture Holiday Card Challenge ArchDaily Dec 2017
STUDIOS Architecture • San Francisco, CA May 2018 - Feb 2019 Top 50 Entries ; Arch Out Loud Schematic Design / Rhino + Revit Modeling Vertical Cemetery Competition / Design Documents / Construction Docu- ARCH OUT LOUD ments / Project Coordination / Consultant Oct 2018 Management
Junior Designer Santos, Prescott and Associates • San Francisco, CA / Somerville, MA Mar 2014 - Apr 2017 Initial + Schematic Design / Architecture Competitions / Physical Model-Making / Graphics + Marketing Materials / Rhino + Revit Modeling / Construction Documents
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Selected Work : Fairy Tales 2016 Architecture Storytelling Compeition Blank Space Project July 2016
Honorable Mention : eVolo Skyscraper Competition eVolo Magazine Jun 2016
P R E S S + P U B L I C A T I O N S VISI MAG Instagram Love Beltline-Inspired Restaurant to Open Atlanta Business Chronicle Digital Publication • Feb 12, 2019
Hyperreality : On Tooling Perception KooZA/rch Digital Publication • Nov 11, 2018
Wussy Mag Vol.4 - Queer Artist Profile WUSSY MAG Print; pages 22-27 • Jun 18, 2018
New Artist : Eric Randall Morris
Visi Mag Interview / Digital Pubiclation • Nov 6, 2016
Fairy Tales Vol.3
Blank Space Project Print; pages 148-155 • Sep 2016
Evolo Skyscrapers 3
eVolo Print; pages 220-223 • Sep 2016
eVolo Skyscraper Winners
ArchDaily Digital Publication • Mar 29, 2016
Displate Digital Publication • Jun 18, 2018
EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS
American Hyperreality Photo Project
W Atlanta - Downtown : COLOSSAL Mural no.2
WUSSY MAG Print; pages 22-27 • Jun 18, 2018
Fictional Architecture : Dissolving Reality Igloo Media Print; pages 20-23 • Feb 07, 2018
Editing the American Vernacular
KooZA/rch Interview / Digital Pubiclation • Oct 17, 2017
Slightly Dissolving Reality
Juxtapoz Magazine Interview / Digital Pubiclation • Sep 26, 2017
An American Hyperreality
Dezeen Digital Pubiclation • Aug 28, 2017
Distorting the American Dream designboom Digital Pubiclation • Aug 24, 2017
Design Instagram Round-Up Curbed Digital Pubiclation • May 27, 2017
Mural • Local Motives Atlanta • Atlanta, GA 80’-0” x 10’ • Spray Paint, Acrylics, Neon Lighting Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Fumogallery Group Exhibition
Group Show • Multi.me Gallery • Atlanta, GA (5) 16” x 20” Prints • Print on Panel Feb 1 - Feb 28, 2019
FOCUS Innovation Studio : COLOSSAL Mural no.1
Mural • FOCUS Innovation Studio • San Francisco, CA 33’-0” x 10’-0” • Spray Paint, Acrylic Paint Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Home / Sick Exhibition
Group Show • The East Cut Pop-Up Gallery • San Francisco, CA 29 Injket Prints, 8” x 10” - 24” 36” Jan 19 - Feb 3, 2018
Laundre Cafe Artist Feature
Solo Show • Laundre • San Francisco, CA (5) 16” x 20” Prints • Framed, Inkjet Prints Nov 2017 - Feb 2018 website
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• HOME/SICK ART EXHIBITION • CLIENT • T h e E a s t C u t / SKETCHES OF SELECTED ARTWORKS Beyond Beyond Art Collective LOCATION • The East Cut - Pop Up Gallery 302 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94105 JAN 2018 FEB 2018
As an invited artist to the East Cut’s January Art show, Home/Sick, I selected a collection of pieces from my image series ‘An American Hyperreality’ These pieces speak both to the familiar + warm feelings of home, while also distorting + transforming a these visions. In responding to the prompt, I understand that memories and nostalgia can be warped by the passage of time, and reflected that in these altered realities of surburban and urban contexts.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
The installation was 29 framed, inkjet prints ranging in size from 8” x 10” to 24” x 36”.
• ERIC RANDALL MORRIS • HOME / SICK EXHIBITION
INSTALLATION DAY JANUARY 14, 2018
EXHIBITION LAYOUT DEVELOPMENT
COMPLETED INSTALLATION
MATTE, INKJET PRINT, CARDSTOCK SHOWN AT 8” X 10”, 16” X 20”, AND 24” X 36”
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HYPERREALITY PRINT SERIES SELECTED PIECES 2016 - 2018
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Reality is the collective interpretation of our perceptions. In the post-truth information age we find ourselves in, perception has emerged as the media through which language, advanced tooling, and technologies operate. In the past, the inherent limitations of these devices sustained a controlled distance between the observer and the observed, but as we run towards the future the force of these constraints has diminished. The architectural image series titled ‘An American Hyperreality’ - explores the notions of fact and fiction in image.
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“As if floating in hyperspace, designer Eric Randall Morris crafts imagery that represents an “architecture of the unconscious” where buildings defy logic with color and paradox. His ongoing study, “An American Hyperreality” transforms and mutates architectures within scaleless monochromatic fields, setting the stage for the mind and hand to play. These distortions represent a intentional irreverence for the original photographs, and celebrate their dissolution of reality with pastel skies, sharp geometries, and embedded idiosyncrasies.”
- isabel narea | designboom, aug 21 2017
‘An American Hyperreality’ has been featured in publications such as Curbed, Juxtapoz, Designboom, KooZA/rch, Dezeen, and Atlanta’s LBGTQ Magazine WussyMag. Pieces can also be found in San Francisco’s Intercontinental Hotel, Kevin Barry Fine Art, Google’s San Francisco Office, and FOCUS Innovation Studio. A selection of pieces were exhibited in The East Cut’s “HOME / SICK” January 2018 Exhibition in downtown San Francisco. TITLE : 680 • UP, UP + AWAY INKJET PRINT / CARDSTOCK SHOWN AT 11” X 14” 2017
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• ERIC RANDALL MORRIS • AN AMERICAN HYPERREALITY
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• INTERCONTINENTAL SF • CLIENT • The Intercontinental Hotel SF / T I T L E : 7 8 7 • S k y s c r a p e r , 2 0 1 7 BraytonHughes Design Studio LOCATION • 888 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103 FEB 2018 JAN 2019
In collaboration with art consultants, Kevin Barry Fine Art, and interior design firm, BraytonHughes Design Studio, two pieces from the American Hyperreality series were chosen to be included in the interior redesign of the Intercontinental Hotel SF. The images were printed at 24” x 24” and 48” x 48” and were installed in each of the 500 guest rooms in the hotel. Digital files were delivered in Feb 2018 with printing, framing, and installation occuring over the fall of 2019.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
The two pieces were chosen because they reflect an abstracted version of the city that surrounds the hotel. The surreal interpretations of urban surroundings were paired with other abstract photographs of San Francisco.
Interior Photography Provided By : BraytonHughes Design Studio
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TITLE : 795 • Aggregation, 2017
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• THE COLOSSAL COLLECTION • CLIENT • Personal Project LOCATION • San Francisco, CA MAR 2018 MAY 2018
The series, titled ‘C O L O S S A L’, constitutes 16 hand-drawn, abstract spatial compositions. Small figures aggregate within fields of invisible boundaries, giving the pieces layers of embedded micro and macro-geometries. These pieces all measure 19” x 24” and were drawn on 120lb Bristol. Pencil, straight edge, and string were used for the construction lines and planning, and 08 Black Microns were used for the figures. DOODLE
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TITLE : 006 • ORBITS 08 MICRON / 2B PENCIL / 120LB BRISTOl 19” X 24” 2018
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C O L O S S A L PRINT SERIES
DRAWING
COLOSSAL PRINT SERIES INKJET PRINT / CARDSTOCK SHOWN AT 8” X 10” 2018
• ERIC RANDALL MORRIS • THE C O L O S S A L COLLECTION
FINAL DRAWING COLLECTION 08 MICRON / 2B PENCIL / 120LB BRISTOL 19” X 24” 2018
001 • TRIANGLE
002 • RECTANGLE
003 • CIRCLE
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006 • ORBITS
007 • ARROW
008 • TOOTH
009 • UNION
010 • FRACTURE
011 • SHARD
012 • SQUARE
013 • ASCEND
014 • HALO
015 • QUADRANT
016 • CROWN
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• C O L O S S A L MUR AL N O . 1 • CLIENT • Curate Art Group / FOCUS Innovation Studio LOCATION • 181 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 94105 JUL 2018 SEPT 2018
In the summer of 2018, the ‘C O L O S S A L’ series became the primary inspiration for my first large-scale installation. This took shape in a 33’ x 10’ painted mural on the roof deck of a co-working space in downtown San Francisco. Geometries arrayed across the length of three walls, superimposed over a multi-colored, collaged series of marks, figures, and lines. The development of the mural started with these sketches and digital mock-ups. These doodles became the main driver for the mural design, and served as the creative guide presented to the clients - Focus Innovation Studio and Curate Art Group. Painting occurred over the summer of 2018.
MURAL
INITIAL MURAL DOODLE SERIES
• ERIC RANDALL MORRIS • C O L O S S A L MURAL NO.1
The site was a three wall section between the two-level roof deck of the newly renovated Adolph Gasser Photography Building in downtown San Francisco.
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The new owners of the space, Focus Innovation Studio, is a young co-working space that supports start-ups and individuals in technology and the arts. The layers of design were informed by the geometries from the site : site lines across the roof deck, alignments with the main stair that connects the two level roof deck, as well as framing opportunities for photographs and areas to capture natural light. LA Y E R ING ST U DY / C OLOR T E S T S
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DOODLE AXONOMETRIC
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• ERIC RANDALL MORRIS • C O L O S S A L MURAL NO.1
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• W HOTEL - COLOSSAL MURAL NO.2 • CLIENT • W Atlanta - DownLOCAL MOTIVES town / Marriott Luxu- F L O O R P L A N + E L E V A T I O N S : SCOPE OF WORK ry Brands / Puccini Group LOCATION • W Atlanta Downtown, 45 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 30308 DEC 2018 FEB 2018
After the completion of my first mural, I was approached by the art consultancy, Curate Art Group, to create a graphic for a newly renovated restaurant in Downtown Atlanta. The site is in the ground floor restaurant in the W Hotel in Downtown Atlanta, named Local Motives. The wall space measures 10’ tall by 70’ long, stretching over six connected walls in the main dining space and bar area.
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INITIAL LAYERING IDEAS
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PLANNING + PROCESS
DRAWING DOCUMENTATION
FINAL LAYER DESIGN
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COLOR SCHEME VARIATIONS
NEON LIGHT CONCEPT DESIGN
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NEON LOCATIONS + CALL OUTS
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CONCEPTUAL RENDERINGS
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PROGRESSION SHOTS DAY 2 • DEC 17, 2018 / DAY 4 • DEC 19, 2018 / DAY 7 • DEC 22, 2018
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WALL ELEVATION WITH NEON CALL-OUTS
NEON SPEC SHEET
MURAL
NEON INSTALLATION PHOTOS
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• HARBORVIEW HOUSE •
ARCHITECTURE
C L I E N T • A d e l e N a u d e S a n t o s create a set of clerestory windows that exL O C A T I O N • 1 1 W a l l S t r e e t , aggerate these qualities. Gloucester, MA 01930 Containing two, 1,500 SF units over three MAY 2015 MAY 2017 levels, the home has four (plus one) bedrooms and four full bathrooms. With a senSituated on a steeply sloped site in the sitive impact on the site and sustainably northeast corner of Gloucester Harbor, the sourced resources, this house sought to be Harborview House was created as a two- a responsible addition to the neighborhood. unit home that capitolizes on environmental factors, orientation, and its unique sur- Pictured below is the first sketch model of roundings. the home. This model became the primary schema for the house, and after the comThe motion of the house was driven from plete development of the project, much of towards the prominent views of the harbor, its original character was preserved. which also directed towards the sunsets + prevailing winds. The butterfly roof lifts from the entry of the home and opens up to INITIAL STUDY MODEL WEST ELEVATION
• ERIC RANDALL MORRIS • HARBORVIEW HOUSE
FINAL BUILD - SOUTHWESTERN CORNER PROJECT SANTOS,
PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED BY PRESCOTT AND ASSOCIATES
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AXONOMETRIC SERIES
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 2
ROOF
ARCHITECTURE
GROUND LEVEL
• ERIC RANDALL MORRIS • HARBORVIEW HOUSE
FINAL BUILD - SOUTHWESTERN VIEWSHED
LIVING SPACE WITH WORK LOFT BEYOND
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