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 appliqu?d 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.
