Jardin d’Or

Burton Morris

60″ × 48″

Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Layered Silkscreen on Canvas

Presented as part of Burton Morris’ solo exhibition Icons in Bloom at MASH Gallery, Jardin d’Or is a monumental work from the artist’s Sea of Roses series, where the single rose expands into a dense and immersive abstract field. Set against a warm golden ground, layers of black floral linework accumulate and dissolve across the surface. The rose, historically associated with romance, beauty, and luxury, is no longer isolated as a singular emblem.

In Morris’ earlier pop compositions, bold outlines and saturated color fields aligned his practice with the graphic clarity of classic Pop Art. Influenced by the serial repetition of Andy Warhol and the commercial immediacy of mid-century advertising, those works emphasized icon recognition and visual impact. In this new body of work, however, Morris moves beyond tightly rendered imagery toward layered silkscreen, spray paint, and painterly interruption. The repetition here is not mechanical but cumulative. Blossoms overlap, fade, and re-emerge, producing a visual architecture that feels fluid rather than fixed.

The tonal restraint of Jardin d’Or demonstrates Morris’ stylistic evolution. By limiting the palette and emphasizing variation, he shifts away from Pop Art’s flat commercial replication and toward a more immersive, materially expressive experience. The rose becomes an expansive field of motion and density, transforming a familiar cultural symbol into abstract structure and pulse. Morris redefines contemporary pop art by expanding its conceptual boundaries and merging luxury iconography with the language of abstraction.