Museum of Contemporary Craft presents the first West Coast exhibition to focus on Darrel Morris’ large-scale embroidery works. While Morris is best known for intimate and nostalgic snapshot-sized pieces – such as the colorful and heavily embroidered and appliquéd works featured in the Museum’s New Embroidery: Not Your Grandma’s Doily (2006) – the works included in this new exhibition reveal a shift in scale, color and line. The Large Works also signal a departure from autobiographical subject matter to an investigation of the public sphere. Using figures clipped from the print media, Morris' large pieces are line drawings with thread, sharply graphic and monochromatic. Measuring six feet or more, the nearly life-sized imagery envelops and draws the viewer into the work to become an active participant.

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Listen to an interview with artists Mandy Greer, Darrel Morris and curators Stefano Catalani (Bellevue Arts Museum) and Namita Gupta Wiggers (Museum of Contemporary Craft) by Eva Lake, Art Focus, KBOO Community Radio

RELATED PROGRAMMING

ADULT WORKSHOP
Darrel Morris: Contemporary Embroidery
Saturday & Sunday, January 24–25, 9 AM–4 PM

MEMBER EVENT
Member Preview Reception
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PANEL DISCUSSION
CraftPerspectives: Curating the Work of Mandy Greer and Darrel Morris
Thursday, January 22, 6:30 PM
$5 (free for members and students with ID)

EXHIBITION TOUR
Curator Walkthrough
Wednesday, February 11, noon

EVENING DISCUSSION
Craft Conversations:
Glenn Adamson's Thinking Through Craft
Thursday, February 12, 6 PM

LECTURE
CraftPerspectives Lecture: Glenn Adamson
Craft in the 21st Century: Directions and Displacements
Saturday, February 21, 2:30 pm
White Stag Building at University of Oregon
70 NW Couch Street, Portland
$5 (free for members and students with ID)
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EXHIBITION TOUR
Walkthrough with Marci McDade
Saturday, March 14, 1 PM
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IMAGES:

Darrel Morris, Climb (detail), 2002; Thread on canvas; Courtesy of the artist and Gescheidle Projects

Darrel Morris, COACHES and athlete, 2007; Embroidery and appliqué; Image courtesy of the artist

Darrel Morris, Who'll Be Sorry When Who's Gone?, 2001; Thread on canvas; Collection of Arkansas Art Center

Darrel Morris, Defeat, 2005; Embroidery and appliqué; Courtesy of the artist and Gescheidle Projects