Morris David Dorenfeld spent his formative years studying painting at the Chicago Art Institute. The intervening years he spent designing fabrics and wall coverings for a living. Moving to the coast of Maine in 1978 brought a change of lifestyle, and attempt to live in balance with nature, a renewal. Designing and weaving tapestries became a new means of personal expression.
The tapestries are composed of horizontal bands of color of varying widths and repetitions. Extraneous texture and pattern are usually eliminated to reveal the beauty of color, the harmony of proportion. In the new Domino Series, Dorenfeld has been exploring the dynamic contrast of white and black, using minimal color. The weavings pertain to the quiet, often dramatic, symmetry of reflections and mirrored images, the abstract distillation of land and seascape.