Visual Arts Source
Donna Tennant
Kelly Moran’s show is large and complex in terms of imagery, materials, and construction. The artist’s background is similarly complicated. On her website, Moran describes herself as a printmaker, but she studied painting as an undergraduate and ceramics in graduate school, but discovered a love of printmaking later in her career. The pieces in this show combine inkjet prints and polymer prints with found objects, found papers, resin, and hand-carved wooden frames.
Moran’s work conjures up memories of a happy childhood in the fifties and early sixties. Paper dolls, children in clothing from the period, references to Dale Evans and other celebrities from the era, comic-book characters, pin-up girls with fifties-style hair, and ads that might have been lifted from Life magazine are just a few of the images that appear in the show.
“Dagwood’s Monkey Suit” is a large paper doll of a male figure in formal dress mounted on a background of..
kelly Joined: Nov-23-2012 |
Kelly Moran
1122 Thornton Rd Houston Tx 77018
Cell:713 504 5138
kellymoranart.com
Education
• Florida School of the Arts
Palatka, Fla. 1979
• Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana B.F.A. 1982
• University of Houston Graduate Studies
Houston, Texas 1983-84
• Apprenticeship Little Egypt Enterprises Print and ceramic collaborations
Houston, Texas 1984-86
• Study Chinese ceramics, indigenous ceramics and indigenous textiles
Jakarta Indonesia 1995-97
• Selected one and two person Exhibition
• D.M. Allison Art, Houston, TX " Kelly Moran" 2014
• D.M. Allison Art, Houston, TX "Beg, Borrow and Steal"2012
• Wagner Sousa, Galveston, TX "KA-Pow Wow" 2012
• Nau-haus, Houston, TX “American Dreamer”,2011
• Bogan Gallery, Galveston, TX “Kelly Moran” 2011
• Cultural Center “Amistad III”, Arequipa, Peru, 2010
• Dishman Museum, Lamar University Beaumont, TX “American printmakers” 2010
• El Centro College, Dallas, TX..