Richard allen morris biography of barack

The artistic biography of Richard Allen Morris is swiftly told, and it is astonishing how little space it takes up. Born in 1933 in Long Beach, California, Morris spent most of his life in San Diego, where he worked doggedly in small studios – almost on the edge of the art world, and always on the breadline.

With two or three exceptions the list of his solo shows barely crosses the southern city limits of Los Angeles in over 40 years; his first gallery show outside San Diego took place in 1996, at Chac Mool Gallery in West Hollywood.

Richard A. Morris

In spite of this, the cliché of a mould-breaking Outsider cannot be applied to him – his painting is too saturated with contemporary and historical references for that. A more appropriate image is that of the artist’s artist, someone whose work is discussed and appreciated primarily by his peers.

For John Baldessari, Morris remains an influential role model, and the painter David Reed sees in his diverse oeuvre ‘a whole Escuela