Rebecca morris

Rebecca Morris, Untitled (03-18) (detail), 2018. Oil on canvas. 101 x 92 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey.Rebecca Morris: The Ache of BrightJanuary 11—March 16, 2019Since the early 1990s, Rebecca Morris (b. 1969, Honolulu) has explored the vast visual language of abstract painting. Inventing an extensive array of original forms, compositional rules, and improvisational associations, Morris creates highly ... Read More

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Showing at Bortolami. Bortolami presents Rebecca Morris’ first exhibition with the gallery, a diverse group of new paintings...

Rebecca Morris is an artist represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey. b.1969 in Honolulu. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.Morris’s dynamic paintings contain formal tensions and contradictions through their embrace of patterns and textures, and the visibility of the artist’s hand in every gesture. Her work pushes against the historical foundation of her chosen medium and offers a glimpse into new ways forward for the constantly evolving and expanded field of painting. Having developed an…

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Rebecca Morris, Untitled (#08-10), 2010, oil on canvas

Art By Rebecca Morris

In the competitive maelstrom of 20th century art, philosophies became dogmas, and the dogmas outright manifestos. In the new century, many abstract painters are saying goodbye to all that didactic thinking and exuding a kind of calculated tentativeness.

This major survey presents 27 paintings that showcase Morris's rigorous commitment to abstraction and experimentation over a 21-year period.

Curious about her odd, uncharacteristic pink painting (image above) on display at Frieze last week, I wrote LA artist Rebecca Morris and asked her about it. Here’s what she told me: …