John Morris

Morris’s obsessive and seductive drawings have been described as the “poetics of the ad infinitum” by the critic Alan Weiss. One of Morris’s underlying interests is systematization, and he has been inspired by the economic theory of Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), whose “creative economic destruction” sought to explain paradigm shifts in the business world. The artist’s exploration of the cellular, mathematical, and perhaps verbal patterns of the universe and the human need for order within chaos may be evident in this work. But Morris’s vision is also radically self expressive and full of an urgency known only to the artist.