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JEINA MOROSOFF

By Jennifer MacLeod

The glassworks in Vancouver artist Jeina Morosoff's Submerged Series look like fossils of ancient marine lifeforms that have been retrieved from a mysterious undersea resting place. The "fossils" are hand-blown into pleasing, elegant forms by Morosoff, who then sandblasts a hand-drawn design in relief on the glass and applies a powdered iron suspension that, when chemically treated, rusts into a rough encrustation. Morosoff has applied the same technique to simple but captivating egg shapes that draw your gaze into their crystalline centers. Morosoff's work is "of the highest quality, very precise, yet organic in form," says Deborah Herringer Kiss, who is featuring the Submerged Series at Herringer Kiss Gallery this spring. Morosoff has shown in several group and solo shows at such galleries as the Canadian Craft Museum and Circle Craft Gallery in Vancouver, as well as the Starfish Gallery in Victoria.