Burton Morris - Art Statements Gallery Hong Kong

Reaching out to mass audiences, Burton Morris has created signature images for the 76th annual Academy Awards, the 38th Montreux Jazz Festival, The Andre Agassi Foundation, and the 2006 Major League Baseball All- Star Game. In addition, fans of the legendary television sitcom "Friends", were familiar with Morris' artwork that adorned its set for ten seasons. His most recent accomplishment was being selected by Major League Baseball as the offical artist for the 2006 Allstar game.

His paintings hang in the corporate collections of Warner Bros. Studios, Gallo Winery, Microsoft and H.J. Heinz. Some private collectors include Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Tim Allen, and John Travolta.
Building on the legacy of Pop Art masters of the 1960s-70s, Burton Morris presents his personal world of popular American icons that put a delightful spin on everyday objects and motifs. In his post-Pop style, Morris boldly projects an enticing mood of happiness, high energy and fun. Morris' forbearers were Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann and Red Grooms. He also employs some of the shorthand gestures of comic strips and magazines he has loved and emulated since childhood. These classic devices are seen in his simplified forms and action lines indicating movement joined with his rich acrylic colors. Morris imbues his art with his own impeccable style and optimistic frame of mind.

Burton Morris was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1964. Like the late Pop artist Keith Haring, Morris felt an early attraction to Belgian artist Pierre Alechinsky's paintings that resemble fantastic comic strips. Both artists saw the Belgian's large exhibition in the International Series at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, in 1977. Morris earned his bachelor of fine arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 and, during three more years while art directing and doing television commercials, he began developing his post-Pop drawings.
In his paintings Morris energizes every day images with his unique style. Subjects such as a steaming coffee cup, a swirling martini, and a dancing popcorn box all take on a new life under his paintbrush . These images among many others are now internationally known.

Morris currently splits his time between homes and studios in both Los Angeles, CA and Pittsburgh, PA.