Sarah Morris - Contemporary Arts Center
Sarah Morris - Contemporary Arts Center

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 tercentennial 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  



This exhibition is organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), and curated by Andrea Andersson, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the CAC.  


Dates and Times:
900 Camp St
New Orleans, 70130
900 Camp St  New Orleans, 70130