ABOUT THE ARTIST

Beverly Morris is a New Orleans ceramic artist who was born in New York City and raised in New Hampshire, Florida and Mexico. She graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Political Science and worked for The Times-Picayune for 15 years as an award-winning copywriter and creative director.

She has been commissioned by the Saks Fifth Avenues of New Orleans, LA, Boston, MA, Greenwich, CT, Palm Beach, FL and the Tulane Cancer Center. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the New Orleans Arts Council. She was chosen to show her work on the third anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at the Louisiana State Archives as part of  the "40 Days and 40 Nights" exhibit.

She has explored various themes while exhibiting at d.o.c.s. For her first solo show, it was "Prenda", an African vessel used in ritual ceremonies thought to represent the entire world in miniature into which the medicine doctor places "all manner of spiritualizing forces - there he keeps the cemetery and the forest. There he keeps the river and the sea, the lightning bolt, the whirlwind, the sun, the moon, the starts - forces in concentration."

Her second solo show used "Wabi", a Japanese concept of beauty based on the imperfect., to express her work.

In this, her third solo show, she explores "Confluence." Literally, the idea is the flowing together of streams as well as the place where those waters meet. In this body of work, it is the flowing together of ideas, what preceded the moment of the meeting of those ideas and what happens after. The city I so love was and is, of course, in the middle of this confluence. The work is made up of textures, patterns, repetitions, layers, carving and water themes, each only possible because of what preceded it.

"And if the earthly no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth; I'm flowing. To the flashing water say: I am."
     -Rilke