Häusler Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by Richard Allen Morris
Richard Allen Morris, RAM-65-GP-130, 1965. Tempera on paper. Courtesy: The artist and Häusler Contemporary Zurich. Photo: Martin Böck.
ZURICH
.- In the exhibition Richard Allen Morris «Multiple Identities» Häusler Contemporary presents the «Guns» series from 1965. An exclusive assortment of works on paper and canvas showcases this American artists painterly originality and subversive touch, which are admired by his fellow artists but are largely undiscovered by the general public.
Since the 1960s, Richard Allen Morris ( 1933) has explored various media in painting, pushing the image to the threshold of object and relief and alternating wittily and ironically between figuration and abstraction. Described as a painters painter, Morris has worked in obscurity for decades. Only a few contemporaries have been afforded a glimpse of the artists oeuvre, which helps to explain why renown has come so