Norissa Rushing
Date: 1970
Medium: Cloth on wood and metal
Dimensions: 81 × 66 × 53 inches
Edition: 1
Related Information
Exhibitions:
Paul Harris [traveling exhibition], San Francisco Museum of Art, CA; University Galleries at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; Art Gallery of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; May 5–June 11, 1972
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, Sewn Stitched & Stuffed, April 12–June 10, 1973
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, Paul Harris, Sculpture, 1973
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL, Paul Harris Sculpture, Certain Pieces, 1958–1980, October 4–November 15, 1981
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, [Untitled Group Exhibition], 1996
The White Chapel, Bozeman, MT, Pairs: Seeing Doubles, April 26–28, 2017
Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, MT, Paul Harris Art Collection, 2020
Publications:
Brown, Theophilus. Paul Harris Sculpture. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
Remarks:
"In 'Norissa Rushing' the figure in her flowing floor-length gown strides in the midst of four lollipop trees with lumpy profiles. The volume of these forms is relatively dissolved by the overall floral patterned surfaces of the trees and the woman's dress. On the trees alone the pattern of leaves and flowers visually plays against the lumpy forms so that a lively tension is created between surface and volume. The floral patterned gown of the woman seems to blend with the trees as if a Vuillard painting took on three dimensions. These sculptures capture the quality of overall, soft light surfaces in Vuillard's painting, where an anonymous figure is at one with the environment."
—Suzanne Foley, exhibition catalogue for Paul Harris, 1972.
