Morriss received her B.A. degree from Stanford University and her M.F.A. degree from Yale University. She also studied at the New York School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship. Her work appears in the collections of Washington University Gallery of Art, Novus International, Inc., Phelps-Dodge Corporation and General American Life Insurance Company. Using geometry, Morriss works her way through the existing tension between the emotional and intellectual elements found in her drawings. The intersecting lines merge together and create spaces throughout the composition. The dark, expressive markings offer a noticeable contrast to the strong, geometric relationships occurring throughout her masterful works.
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Conjuration
Cargo Culture
Silent Motion
from Two Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities (Fried Eggs and Arson)
from Two Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities (Martha and the Greased Pig)
Title card for Al Norte Interior (To the Northern Interior)
Colophon for Al Norte Interior (To the Northern Interior)
#905
Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1976, 1980 and 1986, DeVore was installed as ?Fellow,? of the American Craft Council in 1987. His work can be found among the public collections of the American Craft Museum, New York, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Victoria and Albert Museum, London England; and the National Collection of Contemporary Art, Paris, France. During the 1970s DeVore experimented with pushing traditional ceramic forms such as the vessel into new aesthetic expressions. His minimalist works have hidden spaces inside their interiors that reveal openings. These openings draw the viewer?s gaze into the interiors of the sensuous vessel forms. The vessels often elude eroticism and #905 and #916 in the Daum?s collection are no exception. One vessel suggests the male form and the other the female form.
#916
Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1976, 1980 and 1986, DeVore was installed as ?Fellow,? of the American Craft Council in 1987. His work can be found among the public collections of the American Craft Museum, New York, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Victoria and Albert Museum, London England; and the National Collection of Contemporary Art, Paris, France. During the 1970s DeVore experimented with pushing traditional ceramic forms such as the vessel into new aesthetic expressions. His minimalist works have hidden spaces inside their interiors that reveal openings. These openings draw the viewer?s gaze into the interiors of the sensuous vessel forms. The vessels often elude eroticism and #905 and #916 in the Daum?s collection are no exception. One vessel suggests the male form and the other the female form.