“The pop art movement really inspired me, and playboy embraced artists. “The magazine was full of art,” Burton explains. Our Rabbit first burrowed into Morris’s visual lexicon decades ago when he encountered a collection of playboys in a friend’s attic and was immediately inspired by the visuals-though not, as you might assume, the nude pictorials. I know that had an impression on me.”īurton’s subconscious attraction to “cartoons, bright colors and pop-like things” set the stage not only for his career but for his 2017 collaboration with Playboy. Pittsburgh has changed immensely, but back then, I remember smoky steel mills and big blast furnaces.
Usually my message has been based on what is going on in pop culture.
“When you look at my work,” he says, “you can see I’ve tried to take single objects and logo-esque forms and create an inspired piece. The city helped form Burton’s creative sensibility in other ways. “Pittsburgh had a lot of gray days, so I loved to add color in all my art.” “Growing up in Pittsburgh, I loved comic books, I loved cartoons, I loved color,” Burton tells Playboy. Morris lay the groundwork for his signature style-bold, colorful, graphic renderings of objects with pop-cultural significance-long before his collaboration with our Rabbit. On November 9, the artist will debut an original collection of Playboy-inspired work at Taglialatella gallery in New York City. And come this fall, Morris can add “Playboy artist” to the list. Burton Morris is many things-an American pop artist in the tradition of fellow Pittsburgh native and Carnegie Mellon alum Andy Warhol, a former advertising art director and a lifelong devotee of comic superheroes, which he taught himself to draw at the age of three, when a well-intentioned attempt to imitate Tarzan on the monkey bars put the budding artist in a full-body cast for two and a half months.
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