Artist Statement
Life is loud.
To be human is a constant barrage on the senses - overwhelmingly chaotic yet beautiful. Through my work, I delve into this internal conflict as a cyclical push and pull between harmony and disruption. It is an ongoing conversation between my internal and external worlds framed through the language of geometry and abstraction.
While my earlier works focused on imposing order onto chaos, my current focus flips this narrative, introducing elements of organic chaos into the mathematical structure of nature. I seek not to erase the conflict but to embrace it, creating spaces where the viewer can sit with, rather than run from, their internal dissonance.
Biography
Chanae Morris is an emerging artist working primarily in oils. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, she grew up living a nomadic lifestyle, and now resides in northwest Pennsylvania with her husband and daughter. Morris’s artistic journey began with a desire to translate her complex internal world into visual language focusing first on color then form. Her work employs strong themes of duality, frequently exploring the contrast of representational forms within the context of nonrepresentational space.
Primarily self-taught, Morris has attended workshops as a form of personal growth and study under mentors such as Allyson Grey at COSM and Bonnie Levinthal at Ballinglen in Ireland. Through her travels, she seeks out how colors, forms, and textures interact as the unique fingerprints of a place and its inhabitants. In her desire to make tangible connections, Morris imbues structured, mathematical forms with emotional depth, shifting shape and form to create pieces that challenge viewers to consider both the visible and invisible forces at play within nature and themselves.