Rebecca Morris: “On Vacant Paintings”
Catalog essay published on the occasion of Morris’s 21-year survey at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in the fall of 2022, which traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in the fall of 2023. Edited with a text by Jamillah James, the catalog also features contributions from Anne Ellegood, Anthony Elms, Camila McHugh and Hamza Walker.
The essay details and contextualizes the artist’s “Vacant Paintings,” a sparse burst of work made around 2009-2012, with discussion of life and career, process, Keith Sonnier and Niele Toroni.
