Tri-State
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Tri State Sculptors/members/Morgan, PhD
| Jo-Ann Morgan, PhD |
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Title: Globe Dimensions: 10" x 10" x 10" Medium: woven wire Date Created: 2006 |
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Title: Three Bustiers Dimensions: Medium: woven magnate wire Date Created: 2006 |
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Title: Green Mermaid Dimensions: 39" x 12" x 25" Medium: woven magnate wire Date Created: 2005 Location: Montclair Gallery, Oakland, CA Mar 3-Apr 30, 2007 |
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Title: Bound Figure Dimensions: 30"x12"x10" Medium: Woven wire Date Created: 2003 Location: GarageGallery, San Francisco Apr 5-May 31, 2007 |
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Title: Bust of Barbie Dimensions: 28"x11"x9" Medium: Woven Wire Date Created: 2002 Location: GarageGallery, San Francisco Apr 5-May 31, 2007 |
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Title: Barbie Workout Fit Dimensions: 28"x14"x10" Medium: Woven Wire Date Created: 2002 Location: Commissioned by Niemann Hayden Scottsdale, AZ |
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Title: Bound Figure 1 Dimensions: 32"x14"10" Medium: Woven Wire Date Created: 1994 Location: Collection of Zora Em Speert, Los Angeles |
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Title: Mermaid Dimensions: life size Medium: woven antique phone wire Date Created: 1991 Location: Collection of Raquel Welch |
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Title: Prom Night Dimensions: 8" x 28" x 7" Medium: woven wire |
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Title: Bound Figure Dimensions: Medium: woven wire Location: ArtPic Gallery, North Hollywood, CA |
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Title: Red Brocade Dress Dimensions: 26" x 15" x 14" Medium: woven magnate wire Location: GarageGallery San Francisco, Apr 5-May 31, 2007 |
| Artist's Bio |
Jo-Ann Morgan is an art historian and a visual artist. She is the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as Visual Culture, University of Missouri Press, 2007. Her woven wire sculptures are represented by galleries in California and Arizona and can occasionally be seen in television and film productions. She is an associate professor of art history in a dual appointment with the Department of African Ameri ...... more |
| Artist's Statement |
My sculptures are handwoven in copper, steel, and colored copper magnate wire. They are entirely hand-tied, fabricated free-form, independent of any mold or model. The gesture of each figure reveals an internal psychological state. The metaphor of barbed-wire, which is what this material conjures up, is an apt one. I see these forms as being both symbolically confined within themselves, limited, i ...... more |
| Resume |
GALLERY REPRESENTATION (current) Neimann Hayden Fine Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona. 480-315-1151 Gallery Soho, Palm Desert, California. 760-836-0742 Art Pic, North Hollywood, California. 818-503-5999 EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. (Art History, 1997) University of Wyoming, M.F.A. (Studio Art, 1988) University of Wyoming, M.A. (Studio Art, 1987) Schiller International ...... more |