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Morrie Cramer is an erotic artist who is currently working on a film entitled Bullet Ballet. Cramer’s work is featured in Metropolis Apocalypse Art Show at Supreme Trading from October 9 to October 31.
Morrie Cramer. Artist’s model about to be body cast. Courtesy of the artist.Since my first solo show in SoHo, NY in 79—no wait, in Soho, London in 77—I continued to exhibit through the end of the 20th century. Soon sculptures evolved from body casts in which the models wore and manipulated gloves, shoes, lingerie, and corsets—then the corsets started to be made of chicken wire, and rope… Such corsets manipulate and interact with the flesh. This stuff is cut off the model and left in the mould that is then poured with a white gypsum cement. After the mould is wasted, the rough cast is finished; stone fists clench real fabric, and leather that pulls into and bulges the stone (flesh.) The work got more erotic and so did my pencil drawings and collages, which I put behind [often broken] glass in stone slabs.
Art is more important than artifacts… The story of a starving artist has become a comic pirate movie, Bullet Ballet. In the early 21st century I put all of my creative energy into this feature film, beginning with the first of two coast-to-coast road trips in an antique convertible. After many delays it is now being edited and finished. About four to five years ago, as I started shooting the New York scenes. I had to remove a lot of explicit art works from my studio. I couldn’t have them in the background of a PG-13 film. Some ended up at Art at Large Gallery, and most of the rest were on exhibit at the New York Body Archive for a couple years. This has made its way to Panama Beach, Florida, to be seen in a new space there called Archive. My most recent exhibits have been due to Purple Art, in L.A., a couple of other friends getting my work into group shows, and Art at Large including my work in various shows and art fairs. I, meanwhile, have been handcrafting my Bullet Ballet.
My art will be featured in an upcoming series of salon-style shows: Metropolis/Apocalypse, being put together by Johnny V, with recent input from Genesis P-Orridge. The first show is in memory of Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, who recently passed away. A Ballet body cast sculpture and scenes with another model will be featured in the film, showing the processes of my sculpture, in a fictional rather than a documentary format. Recently, I’ve been drawing again for the film’s animations (renderings draw themselves.) This and other work will be featured in small solo exhibits in connection with film showings (including a European premier in Göteborg, Sweden) about a year from now.
