Katy Moran: Paintings
I first viewed the paintings
of Katy Moran in London in 2006 at Stuart Shave’s then East End gallery Modern Art.
I was instantly drawn into her painterly and extremely beautiful works. I could
see that Ms. Moran particularly loved paintings and the sensation of painting. In
her work, one can view a specific yet nonrepresentational survey of
neoclassical and post-neoclassical painting.
Ms. Moran employs varying degrees
of figuration in her paintings. One might see the specific palette Eugene Delacroix used in his Odalisque, but with Moran there is no reclining woman. You may see
the colors and movement of The Wave
by Gustave Courbet, but you certainly will not
see any water. Ms. Moran uses her signature brushstrokes to evoke elements of
something finite, but leaves it to the viewer’s subjective eye to determine
what that finite thing precisely is. Which is not to say she uses distortion,
like Francis Bacon, for example; she deploys a similar
methodical technique with a judicious use of color.
In the end her paintings
feel somehow quite familiar while remaining rigorously unconfined. There are no
bathers or gleaners or decorous damsels running toward a storm-swept abyss, but
there is a powerful, deeply palpable presence that is universal for us all.
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| Captain Beaky and His Band ll 2006 Modern Art |
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| Lucas 2007 Andrea Rosen Gallery |
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| Facing Francesca 2006 Modern Art |
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