Burton Morris

The US pop artist Burton Morris was born in Pittsburgh in 1964. He studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University and subsequently worked as an art director in advertising. The artist often chooses one motif per composition: High heels, coffee cups, popcorn bags, lollipops, chewing gum machines and other cult objects of everyday and consumer culture, which are also assembled into multi-part picture installations. Painted in a stylised comic-like style with black outlines and jagged borders that serve as an abstract flash of emphasis, and with garish gaudy colours, the motifs become iconic pop art images with a signal character designed to immediately appeal to the viewer.