Artist: Katy Moran
Venue: Modern Art, London, UK
Date: July 19 – August 19, 2017
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London
Modern Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Katy Moran. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with Modern Art.
The exhibition comprises a new body of work made during the past year that reflect the continuing evolution of Moran’s approach to painting. Whereas in the past her work has drawn heavily on collage techniques, her new works employ a range of surfaces upon which paint is applied, including found paintings, glass and frames. After a period of time in which Moran’s work was largely desaturated of it, colour has entered back in to her work as a crucial component. Moran considers her work to have an important autobiographical factor.
Katy Moran lives and works in Hertfordshire. She was born in Manchester in 1975, and completed an MA Fine Art in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2005.
Katy Moran’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA (2015); Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art, London (2015); the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2013); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH, USA (2010); Tate St Ives, St Ives (2009); and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (2008). Her work has been included in the recent exhibitions Painter Painter, Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA (2013); Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA (2012); and Art Now: Strange Solution, Tate Britain, London (2008).
Katy Moran, Mickey Moran, 2017, acrylic and collage on canvas in artist’s frame, 61 x 50 cm, 24 1/8 x 19 3/4 ins
Katy Moran, 2017, exhibition view, Modern Art, London
Katy Moran, New Landscape 1, 2017, acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame, 38 x 46 cm, 15 x 18 1/8 ins
Katy Moran, Let’s go to Nasty, 2017, acrylic and collage on board in artist’s frame, 40 x 50 cm, 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 ins
Katy Moran, 2017, exhibition view, Modern Art, London
Katy Moran, Down at Dean Row 2, 2017, acrylic and collage on canvas in artist’s frame, 61 x 49.5 cm, 24 1/8 x 19 1/2 ins
Katy Moran, Come on in 1, 2017, acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame, 40 x 48 cm, 15 3/4 x 18 7/8 ins
Katy Moran, 2017, exhibition view, Modern Art, London
Katy Moran, 2017, exhibition view, Modern Art, London
Katy Moran, Rock Face with a Face 2, 2017, acrylic on glass in found frame, 46 x 56 cm, 18 1/8 x 22 1/8 ins
Katy Moran, Kitty Moran, 2017, acrylic on canvas and board in found frame, 47 x 55.5 cm, 18 1/2 x 21 7/8 ins
Katy Moran, If he can’t have you, he’ll try and destroy you, 2017, acrylic and collage on board in found frame, 58 x 72 cm, 22 7/8 x 28 3/8 ins
Katy Moran, New Landscape 2, 2017, acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame, 38 x 46 cm, 15 x 18 1/8 ins
