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William Morris
In collaboration with Austin Art Projects, we are proud to present William Morris.
“Iconic Works” is a survey of seminal works by master artist William Morris. Morris arrived at the Pilchuck Glass School in 1978, and within a few years made a profound impact on the studio glass world. As Dale Chihuly’s primary gaffer in the 1980’s, Morris began honing his technical skills. Working alongside pioneering virtuoso artists Chihuly, Joey Kirkpatrick, Flora Mace, and Pino Signoretto, Morris developed his own unique vocabulary that would inform and shape the studio glass movement forever. Though there had been prior sculptors in glass, Morris used the medium in a manner which had not been considered. Over more than twenty five years the artist created an astounding, diverse, evolving body of work before his retirement from making works in glass in 2007. His works are included in numerous museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, among many others.
