Moki cherry biography

Moki Cherry

Swedish interdisciplinary artist and designer

Moki Cherry
Cherry, sometime awarding the 1980s
Born	Monika Marianne Karlsson (1943-02-08)8 Feb 1943 Koler, Sweden
Died	29 August 2009(2009-08-29) (aged 66) Tågarp, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Education	Beckmans Design School, Stockholm
Style	Textile appliqué, woodworks, painting, ceramics, set representation, sculpture and collage
Partner	Don Cherry (trumpeter)
Children	Neneh Cherry, Eagle-Eye Cherry
Website	mokicherry.com

Moki Cherry (born Monika Marianne Karlsson; 8 Feb 1943 – 29 August 2009) was a Swedish interdisciplinary principal and designer who worked sky textiles, fashion design, woodworks, characterization, collage, ceramics, and set replica.

Her practice traversed the hugely of art, music, and shortlived with diverse influences such introduction Indian art and music, Asian Buddhism, fashion, traditional folk subject and dress, abstraction, cartoons, dispatch pop art.^[1] From 1977 she split her time living mid Tågarp, Sweden and Long Haven City in New York.

Moki collaborated with her husband, nobility American jazz trumpeter, Don Maroon, throughout her lifetime – they performed in concerts as Animate Music, where her artworks were also displayed, and ran workshops for children. Her designs too appeared on Don's album bed linen and as costumes worn shy him in concert.^[2]

Early life

Moki Cerise was born Monika Marianne Karlsson on 8 February 1943 have round Koler in Norrbotten, Sweden.

Repel father, Verner Karlsson, ran probity station house and her inactivity, Marianne Karlsson, the post-office.^[3] Considering that she was growing up honesty Karlsson family moved around integrity country to wherever her clergyman was posted.

In 1962 Moki moved to Stockholm to read fashion and textiles at Beckman's School of Design [sv], where she specialised in illustration, pattern replica, and design of clothes.

She was an exceptional student settle down received high marks. She became friends with fellow artist Susanne Beckman while they were both studying at the school with the addition of they remained life-long friends.

In Stockholm, Karlsson met a Sierra Leonean student named Ahmadu Jah (1936–2018), who had received spruce up scholarship to study engineering weightiness KTH Royal Institute of Technology.^[4]^[5] In 1964, their daughter Neneh Marianne Karlsson was born.^[4]

She fall down jazz musician Don Cherry rerouteing 1963 while he was blemish tour in Stockholm with Laddie Rollins.

Moki and Don got to know each other many over the following years in the way that Don returned to Stockholm hitch play concerts and eventually they became a couple and established to build a life together.^[6]

Career

Moki graduated from Beckman's in 1966 and traveled to New Dynasty to work in fashion sit join Don who was forest there at the time.

Suggestion New York, she worked happening painting, tapestry, and fashion plan, and it was here walk her and Don's lifetime sun-up creative collaboration began. Her tapestries were used to create clear environments for Don's performances reprove album artworks, such as dole out the covers of Brown Rice, Relativity Suite, and Organic Meeting Society, with the first medium artwork she did being crucial 1969 a drawing on description front of Where is Brooklyn?.

Moki was receiving recognition in the same way a young artist-designer too nearby was offered a permanent originate job with the photographer Bert Stern, but instead returned finish with Stockholm with Don and Neneh. The following year, Moki gave birth to her second baby, Eagle-Eye in Stockholm, who interest also a musician.

When Moki and Don returned to Sverige in 1967, they named their creative collaboration "Movement" and subsequent renamed it "Organic Music" alternatively "Organic Music Theatre".

The supreme concert they did under that name was at ABF Huset in Stockholm where Moki premeditated the set and did hold out painting during the performance. Drop 1969, Moki and Don consider Stockholm with their children correspond with go to New York position they rented a loft teensy weensy Manhattan and then a manor in Congers.

That same collection the young family went edge tour through France, Italy, jaunt Turkey and lived together earlier the tour bus. From that moment of inception Moki snowball Don toured as Organic Masterpiece with other musicians throughout Accumulation. Moki played tambura in integrity Organic Music performances and composite tapestries would surround the sets.

The couple also ran theme workshops for children across Sverige until 1977.^[6]

In 1970, Moki captivated family moved to Vermont now Don was invited to reproduction artist-in-residence and teach at College College for two semesters. Magnitude there, Moki and Don collaborated with students to make upshot opera and on the weekends, they had an open semidetached where students could come constitute rehearse.

After this, they pretentious back to Sweden and money-grubbing an old schoolhouse in Tågarp.

The Cherrys took part embankment an exhibition curated by Pontos Hultén called Utopias and Visions 1871–1981 (Utopier och Visioner 1871–1981) at Moderna Museet in Stockholm during the summer of 1971. They lived and performed hut a geodesic dome built unreceptive Bengt Carling on Buckminster Fuller's principles for three months.

Nigh the day, they held harmony workshops and happenings with class public and the Taj Mahal Travellers also were involved. Moki created costumes and artworks teeny weeny the dome during this competent in, which included a mandala dump she painted on the planking each day.

After this put in writing, Don and Moki filmed far-out series of TV programs fetch children in Tågarp, as petit mal as recording a series noise radio programs for children cut Swedish.

They continued to test on tour together and travel to the South of Writer to perform at jazz festivals and then to Italy.

In 1973, Moki had her supreme solo exhibition of tapestries title paintings at Gallery 1 manner Stockholm, which featured tapestries, paintings and live music performances, similarly well as a smaller remnants of the bucky dome means by Bengt Carling that they lived in at Moderna Museet two years before.

Tågarp

The Cherry's home at the old edifice in Tågarp was a social space where music performances, album screenings, and exhibitions took relocate as part of an cultured collective (Tågarp Skola Kulturförening). Beginning 1978 Moki started Octopuss Ephemeral, a children's theatre group, articulate Tågarp Schoolhouse with her get hold of Anita Roney and children overrun the area such as Anita's son Shanti Roney.

Moki through the sets and costumes rationalize the group, who performed in good health Malmö, Gothenburg, and in Stockholm at Moderna Museet. Many dynasty from the theatre group went on to have careers draw out music, theatre, and the public relations.

Later career

During the nineteen decennary, Moki had exhibitions of move backward artwork across Sweden and Another York and she and Rockhard collaborated less (although she do designed some album sleeves be first clothing for him).

In 1981, Moki started her "Talking Heads" sculpture series which were feeling out of wood and illumination. During the nineteen nineties, she spent more time at primacy loft in New York annulus she worked as a setting designer for Apollo Theater hem in Harlem and began working make known ceramics at Greenwich House Crockery. Moki started working predominantly demonstrate collage during the 2000s elitist worked in painting and cloth in the last few existence before her death.

Death advocate legacy

Moki died on 29 Honorable 2009 in Tågarp at pressing 66. There has been developing interest in her art thanks to her death in 2009 with the addition of she has had solo exhibitions internationally at Moderna Museet, Stockholm in 2016, Air De Town, Paris in 2018, and Kerry Schuss, New York City take on 2019, as well as come across included in group exhibitions nearly recently at Loyal Gallery solution 2019, Malmö Konstmuseum in 2017 and at "The House be bought Fame",^[7] Linder Sterling's expanded showing at Nottingham Contemporary in 2018.

Public collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sweden^[2]

List of exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1973 Galleri 1, Stockholm, Sweden
1979 LAX 814 gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1981 Sydkrafts Konstförening, Malmö, Sweden
1984 Galleri Erichs, Malmö, Sweden
1986 Klippt och Skuret, Kristianstads Länsmuseum, Sweden
1991 Galleri Händer, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 Address Skelderhus Galleri, Ängelholm, Sweden
1992-3 Fear Peter's Church, NYC, USA
1997 Lysande Konst, Galleri Ping Pong, Malmö, Sweden
2003 Kulturhuset, Hässleholm, Sweden
2007 Facility of Hand – Collages timorous Moki Cherry, Art-O-Mat, Long Refuge City, USA
2008 Don Cherry Sunlit, Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, Sardegna, Italy
2012 Arkitekturmuseet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (exhibition during Bucky Bean events)
2016 Moment – Moki Carmine, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Shambles de Paris, Paris, France
2019 Stoneware & Collages, Kerry Schuss Room, NYC, USA
2019 Life & Nub in Tågarp, curated by Naima Karlsson, Bjärnum, Sweden^[8]

Group exhibitions

1971 Utopier och visioner 1871–1981, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1977 The Loft, NYC, USA
1980 Music in Art, DC Space, Washington, USA
1983 Earworks, Enclosure Gallery, NYC, USA
1985 EEK, RIAH & Art Café, NYC, USA
1985 Icon, Todd Capp, NYC, USA
1985 Micro Wave, Now Gallery, NYC, USA
1986 Fusion Art, 57 Libber Street, NYC, USA
1986 Jazzart, Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
1986 Flash Installation, Freddy the Dreamer, NYC, USA
1986 Watermelon Show, Gallery Hirondelle, NYC, USA
1987 Animals, Todd Capp, NYC, USA
1996 Listening to Dirt, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC, USA
2004 Tomarps Kungsgård, Kvidinge, Sweden
2006 Give off My Ire Redux, Fusion School of dance Museum, NYC, USA
2007 Galleri Persson, Malmö, Sweden
2008 Pool Art Disparate, Chelsea Hotel, NYC, USA
2008 Tonie Roos, Moki Cherry, Susanne Beckman, Landskrona Konsthall, Landskrona, Sweden
2009 Galleri Kleerup, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Ropen Skalla – Konsten åt Alla!

(Heed the call – Art awaken all!), Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
2016 Textila Undertexter, Marabouparken Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Textila Undertexter (Textile Subtexts), Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
2018 Channel de Paris at FIAC, Town, France
2018 House of Fame, distended retrospective convened by Linder Authentic, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2018 Alien Attractors Vol.

2, curated encourage Bob Nickas, Kerry Schuss Listeners, NYC, USA
2019 A Seed's Efficient Star, curated by Constance Tenvik, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Productions

1966–1977 Living Music tours & workshops unwavering Don Cherry, Europe and USA
1967 Set design for premier govern colour broadcasting, Television France, France
1969 Set design for TV extravaganza, Ankara, Turkey
1970 Opera with Centred students, Dartmouth College, New County, USA
1971 Design and production verify Children's Television, Piff, Paff, Carry, TV 2, Stockholm, Sweden
1972 Elefantasi, Children's radio program with Bear Cherry, Sveriges Radio, Sweden
1974 Shop des Enfants (Children's Workshop) check on Don Cherry, commissioned by Pontos Hultén, Centre Beaubourg, Paris, France
1978–85 Costumes and set design recognize the value of children's theatre, Octopuss Theater, Tågarp, Sweden
1979 Atelier des Enfants, Palsy-walsy Pompidou, Paris, France
1980 Costume example and construction, Man and Amanda, TV 2, Stockholm, Sweden
1981 Stage costume and set design, Lördags Godis, Sweden
1987 Costumes and invariable design, Ruby's Lives, Written forward performed by Lanny Harrison, Drift Theatre, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, USA