Rebecca Morris Party Cut
September 6 - October 19, 2013
Main Gallery
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Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
Untitled (#06-13)
2013
oil on canvas
87 x 80 inches
Rebecca Morris
Untitled (#09-13)
2013
oil on canvas
67 x 65 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
Untitled (#10-13)
2013
oil on canvas
42 x 42 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
101-13
2013
watercolor on paper
24 x 18 inches
Rebecca Morris
105-13
2013
watercolor on paper
24 x 18 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
227-12
2012
watercolor on paper
16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches
Rebecca Morris
162-12
2012
watercolor on paper
16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches
Rebecca Morris
179-11
2011
watercolor on paper
20 x 14 1/4 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
126-10
2010
watercolor on paper
16 x 12 1/4 inches
Rebecca Morris
169-10
2010
watercolor on paper
24 x 18 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
123-03
2003
ink and watercolor on paper
16 x 12 inches
Rebecca Morris
145-06
2006
ink and watercolor on paper
15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
152-03
2003
ink on paper
20 x 15 inches
Rebecca Morris
152-02
2002
watercolor on paper
24 x 18 inches
Rebecca Morris
172-02
2002
ink and watercolor on paper
20 x 15 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
219-01
2001
ink on paper
9 x 12 inches
Rebecca Morris
157-02
2002
ink and watercolor on paper
13 x 17 inches
Rebecca Morris
248-01
2001
ink and watercolor on paper
15 x 10 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
133-97
1997
watercolor on paper
12 x 9 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
119-00
2000
ink on paper
24 x 18 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
103-97
1997
watercolor on paper
12 x 9 inches
Rebecca Morris
128-99
1999
ink and watercolor on paper
12 x 9 inches
Rebecca Morris
126-99
1999
ink on paper
12 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches
Installation view of Party Cut
Rebecca Morris
106-95
1995
gouache on paper
14 x 11 inches
Rebecca Morris
164-94
1994
gouache and watercolor on paper
12 x 9 inches
Rebecca Morris
188-00
2000
ink on paper
11 x 13 1/4 inches
Press Release
Opening reception at the gallery on Friday, September 6th, from 5:00–8:00pm.
Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to open the fall season with Party Cut , an exhibition of work by Rebecca Morris.
Based in her hometown of Los Angeles, Morris is an abstract painter of uncommon inventive powers. Her large canvases incorporate drawn elements—linear gesture, repetitive line, intimations of depth—but in a distinctly painterly manner, with great sensitivity to facture and tonality. Indeed, drawing has always been a significant part of Morris’s process; she periodically takes time out to execute a body of drawings, and these highly coloristic works refresh and inspire her painting. In her first exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Morris presents several stunning new paintings, contrasted with a survey of drawings dating back to the period in the mid 1990s, when she had just graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dazzling and often quite humorous, Morris’s drawings show her special manner of using formal means to prod and pry at other kinds of meaning, be they connotative, emotional, or literal. Blocks of color, splatter, loose grids of varying line weight, washes and deft use of resist, occasional words and dates spelled in sweeping strokes – these are works that span available techniques and materials for potency and deliver the goods. The paintings are utterly delicious, compiling fragments into a constellation or luring with the possibility of resolution, then holding out, like a dissonant last chord.
Rebecca Morris’s recent exhibitions include Southafternoon , at Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany (traveling to Bonnefanten Museum, Maastrict, Holland in 2014) and an upcoming solo show at LAXART in L.A. In 2005, she was the subject of a major solo show at the Renaissance Society; this is her first exhibition in Chicago since then.