Richard Allen Morris
BIOGRAPHY
Born Long Beach, California USA 1933
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Richard Allen Morris New Works, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY. USA
Richard Allen Morris, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Allen Morris “Patch and Paint”, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA. USA
2009
Morris Code, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, March 19 - May 9, 2009
Richard Allen Morris, "Small One's", R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA 2008 Insight into Sight, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
Richard Allen Morris "Painter's Room", Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Richard Allen Morris, "Paintings" Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Richard Allen Morris, "Case in View", R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA
2007
Richard Allen Morris "Crossing Edges", Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
2006
GUNS - 110 Works on Paper, Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Richard Allen Morris, Bilder für München, Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Body and Soul, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Through Thick and Thin, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
Richard Allen Morris Retrospective 1958 - 2005,
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2004
Richard Allen Morris Retrospective 1958 - 2004,
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Selections from the Studio, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA
Richard Allen Morris, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
2000
Through Thick and Thin, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California USA
1999
Richard Allen Morris at Chac-Mool, Chac-Mool, West Hollywood, CA
1997
Almost An Apple, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
1996
Jaws, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego, CA
1988
A Sense of Place, Mandeville Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Downtown Annex, San Diego, CA
1984
439 Works 1958-1984, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Abstractions, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1983
Guns and Heads, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1980
Recent Work, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
40 Recent Works, 552 Galleries, San Diego, CA
1979
Aspects of a Retrospective, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1978
Recent Work, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1972
Things on Paper, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Fl
1971
Heads, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
1970
Sculpture, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
1969
Paintings, Bardhall Gallery, Unitarian Church, San Diego, CA
1965
Gun Room 56 Works, Art Center in La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
1960
Art Center, La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
1959
Dada Comes to San Diego Beginning at $1.98, Vroman's, San Diego, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
“Apartment Museum” Collector’s Choice From private - to public - to Private, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
35 Annual Image Small Show, Spanish Village Art Center, Balboa Park, San DiegO, California. USA
2009
Raum.inhalt (1) The Big Exploration, im Tal - Stuftung Wortelkam, Hasselbach, Switzerland
Double Header, San Diego Art Prize, San Diego, California, USA
Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts,
Escondido Museum, Escondido, California, USA
Homing In, An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA.
2008
Untitled Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, California USA
Painted ! - Recent Acquisitions of the Daros Collections, Daros, Zurich, Switzerland
There is Desire Left (Knock, Knock), Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
There is Desire Left (Knock, Knock), Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2007
Blue Chips & Masterpieces, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfort, Germany
Abstract, Gallery Selections, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA
In the Thick of It, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
A Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA
Driven to Abstraction, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Michael Stankiewicz Collection, Schloss Raabs Museum, Stadtgemeinde Raabs, Austria
A Little So Cal Abstraction, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles CA.
2005
Triple Play, Richard Allen Morris, James Hayward, Ed Moses,
R. B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA
Linear Logic, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Allen Morris, Thomas Zitzwitz,
R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California USA
The Dazzling Show, Richard Allen Morris, John McCracken, Lydia Dona
Roellin Duerr Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2004
White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Full Disclosure, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Pickup Lines, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2003
Selections, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California USA
Not the Usual Suspects, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA &
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Inc., Santa Fe, NM
Extreme Paint, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2002
Big and Blurry, Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA
5 Times 4, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California USA
2001
The Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California USA
Mass Appeal, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California USA
2000
The Next Wave, New Paintings in Southern California,
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
1999
Four By Four, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1996
Field Days, Cerulean Embankments, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1996
96 Works on Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1988
Midwinter Award Show, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1987
Black Lines, Gwydion Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1986
Southern California Assemblage: Past and Present, Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum, College of Creative Studies Gallery, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
1986
The Museum of Santa Cruz County and Cabrillo College Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Art Furniture: 98 Artists, Installations Gallery, San Diego, CA
Drawings, Rogue Graphics Gallery, San Diego, CA
1985
Masters Show, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Wood, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
Sixteen X Twenty-six, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
1984
Parts of a World, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1982
10 Against the Wall, San Diego, CA
1981
A California Summer, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1979
San Diego Art Guild All Media Membership Exhibition,
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1978
University of Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Big San Diego Show, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1977
24th Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1976
California Hawaii Biennial, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA
1975
Collage and Assemblage Exhibition, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
1975
San Diego Art Guild All Media Exhibit, San Diego, CA
1974
Blazing Brushes and Flying Clay: Artists of the 1950's and 1960's,
The Artists Co-op Gallery, San Diego, CA
1973
19th Annual All California Purchase Prize Competition, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1972
San Diego Art Guild All Media Show, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
19th Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1971
Top Box Art Spring Invitational Exhibition of Painting, Illinois State University, Bloomington/Normal, IL
1970
An Assemblage of Assemblage, Dwight Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Jewish Community Center Annual Award Show, San Diego, CA
17th Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
San Diego Art Guild All Media Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1968
15th Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
San Diego Art Guild All Media Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1967
Found Object Exhibition, Gallery 25, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
1966
San Diego Art Guild All Media Show, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
1965
Some Aspects of California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
The Box Show, New York, NY
Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, San Diego State Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
1963
4th Annual Painting and Sculpture, Art Center, La Jolla, CA
1962
81st Annual Painting Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
1st Annual Southern California Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1961
80th Annual Painting Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
24th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Art
Association, San Francisco, CA
6 La Jolla Area Artists, Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Center Annual California Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, La Jolla, CA
1960
The Fine Arts Gallery All Media County-Wide Exhibition, San Diego, CA
1st Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibit, Art Center, La Jolla, CA
40th National Exhibition, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Maine, Stephen "Richard Allen Morris", Art in America, September 2009
"Richard Allen Morris" The New Yorker April 27, 2009
Halle, Howard. "Richard Allen Morris, 'Morris Code, works from 1957-2007'", Time Out New York April 2, 2009 pg. 44
Jimenez Carlos, "Painted!", Art Nexus N0. 72 Volume 8 Year 2009
2008
Stephane Correard Analyse / Un Bon Artiste Francais Est Un Artiste Mort, Particules
No. 21 - October/November 2008
Robert L. Pincus, 'Case' in Point, San Diego Union Tribute, July 10, 2008
2006
Barbara Hein, The Light in the Cellar, ART - das Kunstmagazin, Nr. 6 / June 2006
David Pagel, Packing a lot into very tight quarters, Los Angeles Times, April 14
2005
Shana Nys Dambrot "Triple Play" at R.B. Stevenson Gallery, ArtWeek August 2005
Robert L. Pincus, High Profile, At Last San Diego Union Tribune May 12, 2005
David Pagel, The Color of his Passion Los Angeles Time May 15, 2005
Ralf Christofori Richard Allen Morris, Museum Haus Lange, Frieze Magazine May 2005
2004
Robert L. Pincus, An Artist Expands (and Shrinks) his genre, San Diego Union Tribune
December 26, 2004
Siri Hustvedt, Necessary Leaps, Modern Painter October 2004
Robert L. Pincus, Through Thin and Thick, Morris Stuck with his Art, San Diego Union
Tribune October 24, 2004
Christopher Knight, The many colors of white explored, Los Angeles Times, March 19
2002
Robert L. Pincus, 3 Dimensions, San Diego Union-Tribune, April 14
2000
Julia Morton, Bold Strokes, San Diego Union-Tribune, July 27
Christopher Knight, Catching the Next Wave of Painters, Los Angeles Times, June 20
1999
David Pagel, Bold Abstractions, Los Angeles Times, April 23
Claudine Lae, Art Issues, October, Number 59
1998
Welton Jones, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 17
1997
Robert L. Pincus, 'Apple' Intimately shows the fruition of talent, passion,
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 6
1988
David Antin Thinking of Richard Allen Morris, Some Sentences UCSD Press, La Jolla, CA
1988
Robert L. Pincus, Morris Stirs Elixir of Gold Into Rubble,
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 21
Robert L. Pincus, Passion For Art, San Diego Union-Tribune, February 25
1984
Mark Elliot Lugo, Richard Allen Morris: Abstractions, San Diego Union-Tribune,
September 21
1980
Michael Pierce, A Salvage Operation, San Diego Union-Tribune, September 9
Robert McDonald, From New to Old, Artweek, Vol. 11, No. 28, August 30
Else Miller, Recycling Art for Art's Sake, Los Angeles Times, August 11
1978
Suzanne Muchnic, Borrowings of a Creative Recluse, Los Angeles Times, October 6
Morris Show Has Vitality, Santa Barbara California News-Press, October 7
Geoffrey Young, A Deserved Survey UCSB Art Museum, Artweek, Vol. 9, No. 33
1976
Kathryn Russell, Escondido Times Advocate, May 30
Ruth-Ann Rohman, California Hawaii Biennial, Artweek, Vol. 7, No. 11, March 13
1975
Hal Glicksman, Collage and Assemblage LAICA, Journal, June-July, No. 6
1965
Dr. Armin Kietzmann, Morris: Love of the Brush Is Still Core of His Talent,
San Diego Union-Tribune, December 5
Dr. Armin Kietzmann, Contemporary Art is for Homes Too,
San Diego Union-Tribune, August 8
Marilyn Hagberg, San Diego Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 10, August 1965
COLLECTIONS
The Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
PUBLICATION
Richard Allen Morris, Retrospective 1958 - 2004 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Udo Kittelmann & Klaus Görner, What's New, Pussycat? 2006 Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Richard Allen Morris, Crossing Edges 2007, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich Switzerland
Richard Allen Morris, It's just a certain sound I'm after 2008 Kienbaum Artists' Books
Gummersbach, Germany.
Daros Collection, Painted! 2008 Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zurich Switzerland
Richard Allen Morris Painter's Room 2009, Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany