Rebecca Morris
21 Feb – 31 Jul 2020
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Rebecca Morris, Installation view, Bortolami, New York, NY, 2020

Based in Los Angeles, Rebecca Morris has spent the past two decades of her distinguished career expanding her own personal and idiosyncratic vernacular of abstraction.

Morris' paintings often include organic shapes separated by jagged borders, a constellation of pigments which recall maps or aerial landscapes. Oils are thinned to the point of watercolor and judiciously applied from above. Morris positions her large canvases face up on the floor so that the thin paints do not drip right off the surface. As most paintings are significantly larger than her own body, she glides just above them on custom-built scaffolding, a literal bridge on wheels which allows her a greater opportunity to direct the unruly, fluid color.

Works

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#09-19)

Untitled (#09-19), 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#01-20)

Untitled (#01-20), 2020

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#16-19)

Untitled (#16-19), 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#14-19)

Untitled (#14-19), 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#07-19)

Untitled (#07-19), 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#03-20)

Untitled (#03-20), 2020

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#12-19)

Untitled (#12-19), 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#15-19)

Untitled (#15-19), 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#04-20)

Untitled (#04-20), 2020

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#175-16)

Untitled (#175-16), 2016

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#202-16)

Untitled (#202-16), 2016

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#156-16)

Untitled (#156-16), 2016

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#105-16)

Untitled (#105-16), 2016

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#205-16)

Untitled (#205-16), 2016

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (#212-16)

Untitled (#212-16), 2016

Press

Julia Riberio Rebecca Morris Artforum Sep 2020Tenzing Barshee & Camila McHugh Perverse Formalism: Rebecca Morris Tenzing Barshee and Camila McHugh Mousse Magazine Jun 2020Claire Phillips Rebecca Morris This is Tomorrow - Contemporary Art Magazine May 2020