If the closure of Modernist painting is taken as the closure of painting itself, then under the aegis of postmodernism, painting's history is a finite collection of fully legible styles up for being quoted. In this circumstance, the question arises of whether there exists such a thing as an abstract painting. Judging from Morris's work, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" Her shapes, lines, colors, gestures, and surfaces function as an Ur or proto language of abstraction in which one can discern the compositional logic of Stella's black paintings, an isolated Pollock-like splatter, or a Hoffmanesque approach to the juxtaposition of color. This catalogue, the first monograph on Morris's work, contains essays by Diedrich Diederichsen and Stephen Westfall. Westfall examines Morris's relationship to contemporary urban material culture, tracing the redemptive transformation of the cheap, grimy and gauche that occurs in her paintings. Diederichsen locates the place of Morris's work within the rocky history of abstract painting, concluding ultimately that Morris's practice points out a way around the polarization of modernism's and postmodernism's constructions of the genre.

Rebecca Morris: Paintings 1996-2005

Dieerichsen, Diedrich

Westfall, Stephen

Arts & Photography

Renaissance Society

David Storey: October 8-November 3, 1987

Hirschl & Adler Modern

Milton Resnick: Paintings 1957-1960 from the Collection of Howard and Barbara Wise

Individual Artists

Robert Miller Gallery

Lee Krasner Paintings, 1965 to 1970

ALBEE, EDWARD

Lisa

Liebman

Charmion von Wiegand: An Artist's Path from Mondrian to Mantra

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

American artist Catherine Lee (born 1950) works with formal permutation and repetition in materials ranging from stone to canvas. Produced in conjunction with the West Texas Triangle (a collaboration of 5 art museums), this publication presents selections from a wide array of the artist's abstract sculpture, paintings, prints and ceramic works.

Catherine Lee: West Texas Triangle

Wei, Lilly

Pardee, Hearne

Charta/Galerie Lelong NY

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