Nationality British-American Name Sarah Morris | Role Artist Known for Painting, Film | |
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Artwork Big Ben 2012, Creative Artists Agency (Los Angeles) Movies Points on a Line, Midtown, Robert Towne, Capital, Beijing, Los Angeles, Rio, Chicago, Miami, 1972, AM/PM Similar People Liam Gillick, Kate Walsh, Gary Hume, Sarah Jane Morris, Thomas Mifflin | ||
Sarah morris s art
Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967) is an American artist. Since the mid-1990s she has exhibited internationally. She lives in New York City, in the United States.
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- Sarah morris s art
- Sarah morris at fondation beyeler
- Personal life and education
- Work
- Exhibitions
- Origami
- Filmography
- Publications
- Public collections
- References
Sarah morris at fondation beyeler
Personal life and education
Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, on 20 June 1967. She attended Cambridge University, Brown University from 1985 to 1989, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 1989–90. In 1999–2000, she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; in 2001, she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation painting award. Morris was married to artist Liam Gillick.
Work
Morris is both a painter and filmmaker, seeing the two media as interconnected. She describes the dual processes as “two sides of the same coin”, creating the paintings and films (which reference one another visually and thematically) simultaneously.
She is best known for her abstract paintings that feature bright color fields and graphic line work, often referencing elements of architecture and taking titles from bureaucratic institutions.
Morris' films have been characterized as portraits that focus on the psychology of individuals or cities. Her films about cities, like Midtown, Chicago, "Los Angeles", and Rio depict urban scenes, capturing the architecture, politics, industry and leisure which define a specific place. Other films describe a place through the viewpoint of an individual, like psychologist Dr. George Sieber describing the terrorist event at the Olympic Stadium in Munich in the film 1972 or the industry politics of Hollywood from the viewpoint of screenwriter and producer in the eponymous film Robert Towne.
Exhibitions
Morris has shown internationally, with solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2001), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2005), Fondation Beyeler in Basel (2008), Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2009), Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (2009), and Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot (2012).
She has created site-specific works for various institutions including the Lever House, Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany and the Gloucester Road tube station in London.
Morris' films have been featured at the following:
Origami
In 2011 Morris was sued by a group of six origami artists, including Robert J. Lang. They alleged that in 24 works in her "Origami" series of paintings Morris had without permission or credit copied their original crease patterns, coloured them, and sold them as "found" or "traditional" designs. Morris acknowledged that she used the crease patterns as a "launch pad" for her paintings but sees her paintings as "completely and utterly different" from the work of the origami artists.
Julie A. Ahrens, Director of Copyright and Fair Use at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, who supported Morris' defense argued, "Under the Second Circuit's reasoning in the Cariou v. Prince case, Morris had every right to use origami crease patterns to create the "Origami" series without requesting permission or paying a licence fee as her expression and composition, presentation, scale, colour palette, and media are new and fundamentally different from the original materials. And, like Prince, her transformative works had no effect on the market for the originals."
The case was settled out of court early in 2013.