Stuart Shave/Modern Art is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by the British painter Katy Moran. This will be the artist�s second solo exhibition with Modern Art, and her first in London for three years.
Katy Moran�s work is formed from sensation; from mediating a particular sensory experience through the conventions of painting. Her purpose is not to illustrate or replicate an experience on canvas, but to gather some sense of it, and to work relentlessly on a surface until the character of a private reference begins to reveal itself.
Her fluent and energetic compositions recall the dynamic actions of expressive painting, and do so on a personal scale. Incredibly tactile, and rich in technique, Moran�s paintings tempt on the fringes of figuration and abstraction. That said, Moran sees her work as distinctly figurative, and hints that at a certain viewing distance this switch in focus is almost perceptible, while in many cases the titles of her paintings add and allude further to their content. Private references to midcentury ornament and a library of pictorial resources dance on the edge of recognition, as Moran translates the mood of her influences through painterly technique into expressive and suggestive form.
For her exhibition at Modern Art, Katy Moran has produced a delicate and energetic suite of small canvases. In each painting, the characteristic richness of surface and oscillating pattern of image and material behaviour take on particular and individual moods.
As her practice matures, shapes and images that have been resources for picture-making become more directly integrated. Moran uses collage in the construction of her surfaces, variously concealing them with paint, allowing her resources to contribute to the suggestion of imagery. Many of these new works have been made by editing and re-stretching paintings made on originally much larger canvases, a technique that affords Moran a sense of freedom from the restrictions of predetermined composition and a canvas� edges. Found supports, images, and frames give and take-on character as Moran works through sensing, feeling and recognising form in the experience of building a painting.
Katy Moran was born in Manchester in 1975, and lives and works in London. Moran graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in painting in 2005, followed by her first solo show at Modern Art�s former premises on Vyner Street in 2006. Recent museum shows include Contemporary Fine and Applied Arts: 1928-2009, Tate St Ives (2009), a solo survey show at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2008), and Strange Solution, Art Now, Tate Britain (2008). Moran has made solo exhibitions at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (2008), Galeria il Capricorno, Venice (2009), and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (2009). In late 2009 Katy Moran will take part in the thematic exhibition Visible/Invisible at London�s Parasol Unit.
For further information please contact Ryan Moore at Stuart Shave/Modern Art.
Katy Moran
Born in Manchester 1975
Lives and works in London
Education
2003 � 2005 Royal College of Art, MA Painting
1995 � 1998 Leeds Metropolitan University, BA Hons Graphic Art and Design
Solo Exhibitions
2009Contemporary Fine and Applied Arts: 1928-2009, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice
2008Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2006Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Group Exhibitions
2009Surface Reality, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
2008Strange Solution, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
2007Dining Room Show, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Amagansett, Long Island
Old Space New Space, Gagosian Gallery, New York
The Painting Show � Slipping Abstraction, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick
Salon Nouveau, Galerie Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna
2006A Broken Arm, curated by Mari Spirito, 303 gallery, New York
New Contemporaries 2006, London and Liverpool (touring)
Young Painters, Grusenmeyer, Belgium
Primetime Painting � Young Art from London, Galerie Seitz, Berlin
2005Art Futures, Bloomberg, London (Art Review magazine prize)
Peculiar Encounters, London
London Kicks, The Wooster Project, New York
Morpho Eugenia, San Marino
Man Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London
Publications
2009Hughes, Sara, Katy Moran, Tate St Ives (exhibition catalogue), St Ives
2008Katy Moran Paintings, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (exhibition catalogue), Middlesbrough
2006Katy Moran, Modern Art, London
Selected Bibliography
2008Wullschlager, Jackie. The P-word, The Financial Times, November 29, p.3
Gavin, Francesca. On the Up � Katy Moran, Ponystep.com, July 21
Hudson, Suzanne. Exhibition Review, Artforum, XLVI No. 10, Summer, p. 435-436
Smith, Roberta. Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?, The New York Times, April 19
Kerr, Merrily. Exhibition Review, Time Out New York, April 10-16
Kuniz, Daniel. Figure and Ground, The New York Sun, March 25
2007Katy Moran, Artforum, Top Ten, Issue XLV, No. 6, p. 144
Herbert, Martin. Katy Moran, Art Review, Issue 09, p. 99
2006O�Keefe, Alice, Cutting Edge young artists put the knife into Damien, The Observer, November 13
Velasco, David. Katy Moran, Review, Artforum.com, November 1
Baal, Iphgenia. Art: Katy Moran, Dazed and Confused, Vol. 2 Issue 43, November
Herbert, Martin. Exhibition Review: Matthew Monahan, Katy Moran, Time Out London, October 25
Hedley-Dent, Ticky, Theo Fennell Profile, Tatler, October
Smith, Roberta. Chelsea is a Battlefield, The New York Times, July 28
Edwards, Charlotte, Top 25 London MA graduates, The Art Review, July
Larkin, Anna. The Tate Would Be Nice, Wouldn�t It?, Useless Magazine, Issue 4
The Art Review 25: London MA Graduates, Art Review
Morpho Eugenia Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria D�Arte Moderna E Contemporanea
Collections
Government Art Collection
Arts Council Collection
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