![]() 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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