Devin N. Morris, Shaving Grays, 2025.
Photo: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews
Devin N. Morris at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s booth was featured in ARTnews’ Best Booths of NADA Miami.
“In 2019, Devin N. Morris was a printmaking fellow at New York’s legendary EFA Robert Blackburn Workshop, where he honed his craft in stencil monotypes. Now, Morris has returned to collaborate with Blackburn in support of its year-round printmaking activities, with the sale of his work at NADA. In these works, you see the shadow of Morris’s stencil monotypes depicting various figures. He then collages these elements into larger compositions incorporating found objects—from parts of gold frames to door frames to sets of keys on hooks to deflated balloons.
This presentation, titled “Building Materials,” considers what “the home” represents, or as Morris put it in an artist statement, “as a metaphor for peace” and all that entails. That idea connects directly to his use of collage, which he describes as his “charge, utilizing what one has to make what one needs.” The tableaux on view depict intimate domestic scenes with a surrealist bent. Among the strongest are Shaving Grays (2025), in which a buff man in a towel faces a bathroom mirror as he grooms his groin in a frame resembling a doorway, and Burning (2025), featuring a blinking red telephone in front of an emergency exit door, seen through a circular portal in a hardwood-floor artist frame.”
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews