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The Cat House Settlement
Morgan Ritter

September 22–October 27, 2018
Veronica, Offsite (Seattle) map


THE CAT HOUSE SETTLEMENT, Installation Image #1


THE CAT HOUSE SETTLEMENT, Installation Image #2


Corner with STOOL WITH WHEELS (ALL THE WORLD'S PAIN, YET THERE ARE MOVEMENTS), CAT PALLET: LG, and HANG ME ON A DOORKNOB AND I'M HAPPY$1500, $1000, $500 OBO


STOOL WITH WHEELS (ALL THE WORLD'S PAIN, YET THERE ARE MOVEMENTS) $1500 OBO


Detail, STOOL WITH WHEELS (ALL THE WORLD'S PAIN, YET THERE ARE MOVEMENTS) $1500 OBO


CAT PALLET: LG $1000 OBO


HANG ME ON A DOORKNOB AND I'M HAPPY $500 OBO


Corner with STOOL WITH WHEELS (ALL THE WORLD'S PAIN, YET THERE ARE MOVEMENTS), HANG ME ON A DOORKNOB AND I'M HAPPY, and LAPTOP DESK: SECURITY SELF PORTRAIT $1500, $500, $800 OBO


LAPTOP DESK: SECURITY SELF PORTRAIT $800 OBO


Detail, LAPTOP DESK: SECURITY SELF PORTRAIT $800 OBO


WORKSHOP EASEL WITH ENERGY DRAWING, ATTEMPT #1 TO CATALOGUE THE FUNCTIONS OF ART, and INTERSPECIES WORK TABLE $500, $10, $400 OBO


ATTEMPT #1 TO CATALOGUE THE FUNCTIONS OF ART, Zine, 14p $10 each



STUDIO COMPONENT NFS


WORKSHOP EASEL WITH ENERGY DRAWING $500 OBO


Detail, WORKSHOP EASEL WITH ENERGY DRAWING $500 OBO


INTERSPECIES WORK TABLE $400 OBO


LAPTOP DESK: COMFORT WITH IN A NUTSHELL DRAWING and THE MIDDLER (NY) VERTICAL LOFT (I Have a Hat) $900, $1000 OBO


LAPTOP DESK: COMFORT WITH IN A NUTSHELL DRAWING $900 OBO


Detail #1, THE MIDDLER (NY) VERTICAL LOFT (I Have a Hat) $1000 OBO


Detail #2, THE MIDDLER (NY) VERTICAL LOFT (I Have a Hat) $1000 OBO


Detail #3, THE MIDDLER (NY) VERTICAL LOFT (I Have a Hat) $1000 OBO


CUSTOM ELEVATOR $800 OBO


CUSTOM ELEVATOR with SPHERE $800 OBO


CORN PRESENT, 2 x 2” WAND: ROUGH, ARCHIVE OF ANGELS, DOLL BOX: HIDEY SPOT and CAT PALLET: SM $400, $300, $1000, $1000, $400 OBO


CORN PRESENT and 2 x 2” WAND: ROUGH $400, $300 OBO


ARCHIVE OF ANGELS and CAT PALLET: SM $1000, $400 OBO


CAT PALLET: SM $400 OBO


DOLL BOX: HIDEY SPOT $1000 OBO











The Cat House Settlement by Morgan Ritter is a display of carpeted cat houses in a Seattle garage. Ritter has been developing this work for about three years.

Her cat houses are constructed from items one would typically find in a garage such as neglected furniture, ladders, pallets, and some obsolete domestic structures. The Cat House Settlement is a project of dissociation and fantasy, responding to her experiences of crises and disappointment in the human species.

The garage is favored over the gallery for its associations of intimate workshop space, safe area for scrappy prototyping and invention, and site for garage sales. All works were fabricated in her garage studio, hence the incorporation of some of her artwork as stand-ins for cats.

Supplementing this work is a list-poem that attempts to catalogue all the possible functions of art (a majority of which are critical, if not negative). The artist’s long-time fixation on cat houses is born from...

• an inclination to reject the art market proper.
• striving to genuinely make work for non-humans, with an interest in its inherent contradictions. Paradoxical is the human understanding of non-human desires, always limited by the human vocabulary of domestic material, structures, comfort… i.e. in the omnipresent use of beige carpet.
• a curiosity about structures outside of our own comprehension.
• an affinity for cats and interspecies interactions.

*All cat furniture is functional and available for purchase. Contact Morgan to discuss acquisition, shipping methods, and custom cat furniture commissions.

*For the duration of The Cat House Settlement, Veronica’s gallery space will house items previously found in the garage. This is not an exhibition.

*The production of the “Art as…” list poem and the cat furniture does not end when the exhibition comes to a close. Ritter will continue working on both projects for the remaining duration of her life.