Sarah Morris

Sarah Morris is an exhibition of the artist’s painting, drawing and film, examining the mythologies of contemporary urbanity, and by extension, the city of New Orleans during its tricentennial year.

Since the mid-1990s, Morris has developed a vocabulary of abstraction to investigate what she describes as “urban, social, and bureaucratic typologies.” Positioning itself as urban outlier, New Orleans throughout its history has insisted on a brand of cultural and social independence from conventional urban archetypes. Sarah Morris challenges the myth of originality, locating the city in a constellation of urban portraits from Morris’ series on Rio De Janeiro, Paris, and Abu Dhabi. Together, the artist’s gridded, graphic paintings and simultaneously seductive and estranging films present an index of an artist’s practice and of modern urban conditions

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website