{"id":207,"date":"2008-04-04T21:55:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2008-10-25T21:57:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T21:57:43","slug":"katy-moran-at-andrea-rosen-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/katy-moran-at-andrea-rosen-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Moran at Andrea Rosen Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

For \u2018Time Out New York\u2019 Magazine, April 2008
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Wasabi Without Tears, Katy Moran, 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAfter tantalizing appearances in group shows, Katy Moran\u2019s first New York solo affirms the young British painter\u2019s talent for evocative abstraction.\u00a0 The paintings are rife with apparent contradictions:\u00a0 they\u2019re small in scale yet best viewed from a distance, misty veils of white shroud the subject matter, and titles may mislead more than enlighten.\u00a0 Moran\u2019s approach occasionally feels like a self-conscious gambit, but it keeps viewers guessing long enough to come to provocative conclusions.
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\nMost canvases display the artist\u2019s brushy, layered style and earthy, cool color palette, yet the mood of each comes as a fresh surprise.\u00a0 \u2018Lucas\u2019 (2007) is an ethereal cascade of blue and white that could be a waterfall, hazy beach or snowstorm.\u00a0 Alarming splashes of blood red dot a dark oval form that might be a boat or an open grave in \u2018Volestere\u2019\u00a0 (2007). Light paint daubed over dark in the show\u2019s most dramatic piece suggest a battlefield at night, though the title, \u2018Wasabi Without Tears\u2019 (2007) turns the painting into a funny take on high-brow, culinary machismo.
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\nOther canvases distill the essence of different moments in the art historical canon: A cow\u2019s head emerges from a patchwork of Futurist volumes; elsewhere a DeKooning-esque crone is rendered in dark Cubist colors while in a third painting, a rough sailboat shape in a light-toned setting recalls a Dutch harborscape.\u00a0 Occasionally, Moran\u2019s jumble of forms fails to materialize into anything meaningful and her grungy color schemes can be garish.\u00a0 This is rare.\u00a0 Instead, the new work convincingly stakes Moran\u2019s painterly territory: historically astute with a dash of humor, making nods to Karen Kilimnik\u2019s romanticism and Cecily Brown\u2019s jittery fluidity while possessing an energy all its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For \u2018Time Out New York\u2019 Magazine, April 2008 After tantalizing appearances in group shows, Katy Moran\u2019s first New York solo affirms the young British painter\u2019s talent for evocative abstraction.\u00a0 The paintings are rife with apparent contradictions:\u00a0 they\u2019re small in scale yet best viewed from a distance, misty veils of white shroud the subject matter, and … <\/p>\n

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