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Sarah Morris's work is characterized by an interest in communication technologies and the contemporary urban environment. A filmmaker as well as a painter, Morris has created paintings and films that are ostensibly very different from on another, yet the artist has stated that she considers them related: "[T]he films function as an index for every painting I might have made, and every painting I might make in the future." Her films address subjects such as the lifestyle of south Florida, corporate power, and gambling. Her paintings reinvent Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie for the 21st century, combining spectacular grids and maps for impossible cities with a distinct and seductive color scheme that the artist painstakingly invents.
Adapted from
Jeffery Grove, DMA Label copy, 2012.
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- DMA unpublished material = acquisition justification
- updated provenance and geo x refs
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Until 2006: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY [1]
From 2006: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above
[1] See copy of check #12307 in Collections Records Object File 2006.5
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General Description
Sarah Morris's work is characterized by an interest in communication technologies and the contemporary urban environment. A filmmaker as well as a painter, Morris has created paintings and films that are ostensibly very different from on another, yet the artist has stated that she considers them related: "[T]he films function as an index for every painting I might have made, and every painting I might make in the future." Her films address subjects such as the lifestyle of south Florida, corporate power, and gambling. Her paintings reinvent Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie for the 21st century, combining spectacular grids and maps for impossible cities with a distinct and seductive color scheme that the artist painstakingly invents.
Adapted from
Jeffery Grove, DMA Label copy, 2012.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
- DMA unpublished material = acquisition justification
- updated provenance and geo x refs
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 2006: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY [1]
From 2006: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above
[1] See copy of check #12307 in Collections Records Object File 2006.5
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VIDEO ASSETS
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