Sarah Morris
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Sarah Morris is a painter and filmmaker. Her works explore contemporary means of communication. Ideas of architecture, both conceptual and visual, provide one vehicle through which she addresses these issues. To date, her oeuvre consists of large-scale, oil-based paintings, and films. Morris's films operate between documentary, the biography of a city, and non-narrative fiction; they reference sites of production as well as sites of leisure. She views her films as a parallel activity to her paintings; the latter combine allusions to corporate architecture and pure abstraction to construct a theatrical location at once both critiquing her sources and harnessing their power.
Born in the UK in 1967, Sarah Morris lives and works in New York and London. She attended Brown University, Cambridge University, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. She received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Award in 2001, and in 1999-2000 was an American Academy Award, Berlin Prize Fellow. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2005), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (2004), Miami MOCA (2002), Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (2002), and Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001), among others.
External Links:
White Cube, London: http://www.whitecube.com/
Friedrich Petzel Gallery http://www.petzel.com/
Galerie Max Hetzler http://www.maxhetzler.com/
References
Marcus Verhagen, Nomadism, Art Monthly October 2006
Tanja Widmann, To Offer You Something, Texte Zur Kunst, September 2006, pp 248-251
Ezra Petronio and Stephanie Moisdon, Bar Nothing by Sarah Morris, Self Service, Issue No.21, Fall/Winter 2004, pp.302-315
Gaby Wood, Cinéma vérité, The Observer Magazine, May 23, 2004, pp. 22-27
Josephine Pryde, Corporate Chic, Text Zur Kunst, Nr.35, pg.306-311
Art Now (25th Anniversary Edition), Edited by Uta Grosenick, Burkhard Riemschneider, Taschen, p.196-199, 2005
