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An item at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Rebecca Morris: 2001 - 2022

An exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022 is a twenty-one-year survey of painter Rebecca Morris (b. 1969, Honolulu, HI; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA), an artist best known for her large-scale paintings and inventive approach to composition, color, and gesture. Morris's canvases are complex-simultaneously loose and expansive yet also considered and controlled. Her paintings are characterized by the tensions and contradictions that arise from her use of geometric shapes, organic patterns, and vibrant colors. In this way, her work can be understood as an ode to, and a pushback against, the traditions of abstract painting and related notions of hierarchy, beauty, and taste. Rather than present Morris's work in chronological order as the title of the exhibition and her paintings suggest, the exhibition highlights several recurring formal tendencies and motifs that she has developed and revisited over the course of her career, resulting in a distinct and recognizable visual language. Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022 is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA). The exhibition is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and former Senior Curator, ICA LA, with Caroline Ellen Liou, Curatorial Assistant. The presentation at the MCA is organized by James with Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.