Morgan Richardson

Visual Art – San Jose

The most exciting part of what I do is taking a blank object and taking it through a transformative journey with an undetermined destination. I’ve drawn inspiration from great illustrators and animators, each taking individual pieces of paper and creating memorable characters and stories out of lines and colors. Animation and illustration, especially comic books, have been driving inspirations in my artistic career, and the vibrancy, lightheartedness, and whimsy are currents I like to have running through my work. I don’t create esoteric or heavy things. I like to think of my work as rad, goofy, and reminiscent of my childhood. I fell in love with painting sitting in my backyard with a plastic easel, fluorescent jars of paint, and no brushes – just my five-year old hands. There’s a way that children view the world through brightly-colored lenses – always hopeful, optimistic, and carefree. Painting allows me to recapture that feeling, and reignite the imagination as brightly as it burned back then. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richardson blends his varied interests in complex, multi-layered paintings and colorful illustrations. His enthusiasm and energy, matched by his optimism and humor, inform his art as free-spirited and truthful works that inspire and intrigue. Richardson’s eclecticism and vibrancy may be seen by some as “craziness,” but as Tim Burton, one of his main inspirations once said, “One person’s crazyness is another person’s reality.” - Gemma Guerrero, 2010