Morcos Key

“Toward the Sky’s Back Door”, published by the Tang Teaching Museum and DelMonico | D.A.P. (), is the first major monograph on American artist Paula Wilson (b. 1975) . Living and working in rural New Mexico, Wilson seamlessly integrates painting, sculpture, printmaking, and textiles into her multidisciplinary practice.

Designed in close collaboration with Wilson and curator Rebecca McNamara (), the book rejects rigid structure, instead interweaving plates with essays by Taylor Renee Aldridge (), Ebony Y. Rhodes (), and Stephanie Sparling Williams () to mirror the layered, nonlinear nature of Wilson’s work.

Materiality is central to the design, with a screenprinted cover—based on one of Wilson’s pieces—extending her tactile approach beyond the pages. Every detail, from the interplay of textures to the organic flow of images and text, reinforces the book as an immersive, dynamic object—an extension of Wilson’s art itself.

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Renowned for his powerful paintings of American life and scenery, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) remains a consequential figure whose art continues to appeal to broad audiences.
Morcos Key designed the catalog for The Met's "Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents" exhibit to showcase, monumental seascapes, dramatic scenes of rescue and hunting and emblematic images of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Using the centerpiece of the exhibition "The Gulf Stream" on the book's jacket, the design unfolds echoing the waves of Atlantic Ocean.