09/18/2026
“Delicate threads twisted together become strong- perhaps humanity’s first technological revelation: not just a tool but evidence of an interior life reaching outward, beyond the limits of the body. They recall early humans as makers, mothers working, teaching. Forms of twisting and entanglement speak
to human striving: cables, ropes, and roads, but these same forms are equally biological – the branching of a nervous system, of vein and artery. I feel this entanglement embodied within me: my hair, my tension with time, my mortality. This series acts as spiritual artifacts: personal incantations that collaborate with the protective energy of a hive, the transformational power of snakeskin, and the oldest pigments known to man.”
Lily Morris (b. Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts) is a painter and interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the mythologies of labor, material memory, and the cosmic feminine. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston (2009) and her MFA from the University at Albany (2026), and was in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY (2016). Morris’s paintings have been exhibited at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York with Featured publications in Chronogram Magazine (2024), Martha’s Vineyard Magazine (2019), and Arts & Ideas Magazine (2017). She currently lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley
You can view Lily’s work in our current exhibit Fertile Ground, on view now through October 18 🖤 visit website for more info.
