Maidy Morhous

Maidy Morhous expresses herself through the medium of bronze which allows her to portray the extremes of the soft flow of water to the harsh asphalt pavement of our world. The artwork encompasses the pop theme of presenting commonplace objects as fine art. It is meant to engage the viewer and allow them to contemplate and pull from within, and for a moment disengage from the outside world.

Referred to as contemporary still life sculptures Morhous continually searches to portray her environment in the world today. These sculptures expose the view to and pull them in to react and question what is being viewed – be it life and one’s existence, the world’s plight or just to bring a smile. Idiomatic titles prompt metaphorical interpretations to these works with hints at multilayered meanings.

The act of creating is an emotional release; it centers one, giving an inner peace which allows us to reflect not only on who we are, but how we think and feel. I realize now, that the pride of being an artist comes not from what one sells, but the inner peace one derives from the act of creating.

An accomplished printmaker and sculptor as well as painter, Maidy Morhous was born in New York and currently creates out of her studio thirty minutes north of San Diego. Morhous received her Master of Fine Arts degree while studying at Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris in the mid-1970s. Before returning to the States, she traveled to Italy to further her studies in casting techniques at the Fonderia Artistica–Marinelli Foundry in Florence.

Morhous expresses herself through the medium of bronze, which allows her to portray extremes, from the soft flow of water to the harsh asphalt pavement of our world. Her work encompasses the pop art concept of presenting commonplace objects as fine art in a very permanent medium. It is meant to engage viewers and to allow them to contemplate and pull from within, to disengage for a moment from the outside world.
She also evokes emotion through her paintings – strong, powerful images, or more likely abstraction of images.

Maidy Morhous is currently showing internationally in museum and gallery exhibitions; her work can also be found in public and private collections in Japan, England, Europe, Australia and Canada.

• 2024 23rd International Japan – Tokyo Museum Contemporary Art, Japan
• 2024 Allied Artists 111th - Josephine Beardsley Sandor Memorial Award
• 2024 Cornell Art Museum, Florida 3rd place
• 2024 Bristol Art Museum, Rhode Island – honorable mention
• 2023 The Butler Institute of Art Museum, Ohio 110th Exhibition
• 2023 22nd International Japan Exhibition – Tokyo Museum of Art, Japan
• 2023 David and Leon Antar Memorial Award, NAWA, New York
• 2022 Virginia Hammond Memorial Award – NAWA, New York
• 2022 21st International Japan Exhibition – Tokyo Museum of Art, Japan
• 2021 20th International Japan Exhibition Chiba Museum of Art, Japan *Special recognition award
• 2020 Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France – Honorable Mention
• 2019 Elsie G. Hammond Memorial Award – NAWA NY
• 2019 Tokyo Museum of Fine Art – 19th Invitational
• 2019 George Billis Summer Invitational New York
• 2019 Marin Museum of Fine Art, CA group show
• 2019 No Dead Artists, Johathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• 2019 Gallery 825 – solo show
• 2018 Linda Stein Award for Sculpture, NAWA, NY
• 2018 “Ordinary Stuff” Solo exhibition Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
• 2018 Invitational George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles CA
• 2018 National Sculpture Society 85...