The Mirage [Las Vegas] 1999

Sarah Morris made this painting, "The Mirage [Las Vegas]", with what looks like very clean lines. The way she uses color is so deliberate. You can tell it's not about, you know, happy accidents, but about really controlling the process. Up close, the surface is super smooth, almost like it was printed. The colors – those oranges, purples, greens and grays – are laid down flat, no texture to distract you. It’s all about the shapes fitting together, the lines creating this sense of depth. I mean, look at how the orange slices intersect with the purples. It’s almost architectural, like a blueprint gone wild. The way the lines create a diamond pattern makes me think of a distorted view through a screen. It's like she's referencing Mondrian, but throwing in a bit of Pop Art's slickness. This piece feels like an ongoing conversation, an invitation to see the world not as it is, but as a set of interlocking possibilities.