GALLERY ARTIST: Murray Riss

Residence: Memphis, TN Education: BA, College of the City University of New York, 1963; MFA Rhode Island School of Design, 1968Professional Affiliation: Chairperson, The Memphis Academy of Arts Selected Awards: NEA Individual Artist Fellowship, 1975

Riss has been exploring the natural world around him for many years. Ideas of myth and the sacred, life and death are evident in his images of the landscape of Israel and in his current series "Leaformations."