Midtown Seagram with Flourescents 1999

Sarah Morris made this piece, Midtown Seagram with Flourescents, with household gloss paint to create a grid that's both architectural and kind of wonky, if you ask me. I like how the colors buzz against each other, that pale green and those drab institutional browns, it feels very of a time. The surface is smooth, almost too perfect, which is interesting for a painting. You can see where the tape was, marking out those hard edges. I keep wondering if she was thinking about Agnes Martin, or maybe Sol LeWitt, but with a twist, a little more chaos. I'm drawn to that one dark green square, near the bottom, a grounding element amidst all the bright light. It reminds me that even the most rigid systems have their quirks, their little rebellions. Art's like that too, always shifting, never quite settling into one meaning.