After 15 years, Burton Morris returns to Los Angeles with Icons in Bloom, expanding his signature icons into layered, immersive compositions. Roses, popcorn, and Chanel converge as symbols of beauty, spectacle, and luxury. Through silkscreen, spray paint, and hand detail, repetition and “perfect imperfections” shift his visual language, where clarity opens into movement, depth, and a more expressive form of Pop.

“This exhibition is about reopening the icon. Letting the image breathe through layers, variation, and energy. It’s the most expressive body of work I’ve shown in Los Angeles.” — Burton Morris

Pop in Bloom | In this work, Burton Morris brings together two of his most recognizable visual icons, the Popcorn Box and the Rose, into a single, unexpected composition. With a new balancing clarity and sense of warmth and movement, Burton transforms familiar pop icons into something more layered and personal.

Pop in Bloom, 72″ x 42″, Acrylic on Canvas

Jardin Bleu | This atmospheric piece, Jardin Bleu, holds a quiet power. The monochromatic blue palette shifts the emotional register of the rose from overt romance to contemplative depth. Individual blossoms dissolve into collective movement, forming an expressive visual architecture of line and pulse. The surface reveals subtle variations, imperfect overlaps, and tonal gradations that reflect Morris’ embrace of process and accumulation.

Jardin Bleu, 48″ x 48″, Mixed Media on Canvas

Palais de Petales | Palais de Petales is a monumental triptych, where the single rose is transformed into a sweeping, immersive field. Across his body of work, Morris returns to the rose again and again, sometimes saturated and electric, sometimes stripped back to monochrome, repeated until repetition itself becomes the subject. What begins as a recognizable symbol gradually transforms into something more abstract, more structural, more hypnotic. You stop seeing a rose and start seeing rhythm.

Palais de Petales, 60″ x 48″ each, Mixed Media on Canvas

Salon de Coco | Salon de Coco reflects Burton Morris’ earlier exploration of contemporary consumer iconography and forms part of the artist’s broader visual dialogue with luxury culture. The composition constructs a stylized interior tableau where symbols associated with fashion and elegance, such as the Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle, designer handbag, pearls, and fashion publications, are assembled into a carefully orchestrated domestic scene.

Salon de Coco, 40″ x 40″, acrylic on canvas

Pop! Roses | This work belongs to the artist’s Pop! x Bang! series, where his signature popcorn box icon is reimagined and filled with roses across multiple color variations. Inspired by a moment of childhood imagination in which Morris’ daughter transformed a popcorn-shaped vessel into a vase for flowers, the work merges the visual language of cinema culture with the romantic symbolism of the rose, bringing together entertainment, beauty, and luxury within a single emblem.

Pop! Roses. 16″ x 12″ (each) Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Layered Silkscreen on Canvas

Couture Noir | Couture Noir presents the rose as a luminous emblem suspended between image, object, and symbol. Rendered through glittering linework and set against a saturated ground, the composition transforms the familiar floral icon into something closer to a jewel or medallion. The rose, historically associated with romance, beauty, and luxury, appears simultaneously delicate and monumental, its shimmering surface recalling the brilliance of diamonds and the refinement of haute couture.

Couture Noir, 20″ x 16″ x 3″ Silkscreen, Spray paint, and Diamond dust on Canvas

Pop! Bronze | Pop! Bronze from the Pop! x Bang! series reflects a pivotal shift in Burton Morris’ contemporary pop art practice. The signature popcorn box, long embedded in Morris’ pop vocabulary, is reimagined as a vessel overflowing with roses. The result is both celebratory and intimate. The floral lace-like background introduces ornamental density, recalling the serial repetition of Andy Warhol, while pushing contemporary pop art painting toward greater abstraction and materiality.

Pop! Bronze, 48″ x 36″ Acrylic, Spray paint, Diamond dust, and Layered Silkscreen on Canvas

Jardin Rouge | Jardin Rouge is a commanding monochromatic piece. At first glance, the canvas appears saturated in a field of uninterrupted red. Slowly, layered silkscreened roses begin to surface from within the tonal depth, emerging and dissolving along the edges and beneath the surface. The restrained palette intensifies the emotional resonance of the composition. Instead of presenting the rose as a sharply defined emblem, Morris abstracts it into a dense visual architecture of tone and pulse.

Jardin Rouge, 48″ x 48″ Silkscreen, Spray paint, and Acrylic on Canvas

Couture Rouge | Couture Rouge reimagines the rose within a format that references both design object and symbolic medallion. Where classic Pop Art often emphasized flat, repeatable imagery, this circular composition introduces objecthood and material nuance. The glittering surface and saturated red field heighten the association with luxury and fashion, recalling the rose’s historical role as emblem of romance and couture. The format itself reinforces the icon’s timelessness, echoing coins, seals, and insignia.

Couture Rouge, 20″ x 20″ Silkscreen, Spray paint, and Diamond dust on Canvas