Friday, March 4, 2011

more Play-Doh less Plato

Richard Allen Morris

material looks ductile, globs of paint naturalistically sculptured. it has an undeveloped attitude, but you can anticipate the work revealing itself more. in this way there's a concealing nature in its primordial form. they're kind of on the precipice of works being finished and finished works, like the playfully balanced "Window Washer"

nice pastel colors, gives work a contemporary edge. Scale, surprisingly, was a work he did in 1968.

[via Peter Blum, R. B. Stevenson Gallery]

::editor's note:: skeptical RAM did Scale in 1968. Benefit looks like it was done around the same time, but was actually done in 2010 according to these dudes? i guess artistic progression could be overrated when history tends to remember only one or two of your works #artisforever

UPDATE: you can see Morris dates Scale as 1986 in the lower right hand corner of the work, i don't know why i couldn't see that before, i think i was just looking for a date where his signature is (lower left). i received many emails about this you all seemed overly concerned, but we figured it out nice work!!

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