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anxious circles in pdx
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anxious circles - despondent spheres new work November 3, 2017 - January 10, 2018 First Friday Art Walk Friday, January 5, 2018 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm First Friday Art Walk Friday, December 1, 2017 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm First Friday Art Walk Friday, November 3, 2017 Guided tour and talk at 6 pm Hosted Reception 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm gilt+gossamer 873 Willamette Street Eugene, Oregon 97401 lanearts.org/first-friday-artwalk This newest body of work, anxious circles-despondent spheres, is about the process of creating that relieves and reveals stress and anxiety. The paintings transform everyday melancholy, strife, and anxiousness into artwork that takes away burdens. For this work, I relied on memories, loss, grief and even joy. During graduate school I was drawing circles to lessen stress. These circles brought me relief. The circles relieved my anxiety of all the stresses that graduate school encompasses. I allowed myself to draw circles and spheres in my sketchbook and began focusing on composition, line and color. I wanted the drawings to mean more than a quick sketch or silly doodle. After graduating and earning my MFA in Visual Studies, I decided to begin to focus on circles and spheres and create work around this concept. I reviewed my older work and found circles in nearly all my drawing and paintings. For some reason, circles were important to me, I wanted to understand the motivation of creating circles and what intent I could add. I researched the symbolic meaning of circles and how circles and spheres are used to add meaning to various writings, paintings and poetry. The circle represents many concepts from completeness, to wholeness, to Holiness. Circles have meaning: Circle of Life. Come Full Circle. The Wheel. The Planets. The Curve. The Hoop. The Ring. The Halo. There is play in this work. There are memories. Memories hold, contain people, events, just as circles hold and contain. There is loss in this work. There is sadness and there is joy. Fried Eggs with a side of grief, is about the comfort food of my grandmother's kitchen table. Most of these works represent something of my past, the diptych, Saturday Mornings, are about, just that, Saturday mornings, watching cartoons. Gustav Klimt, Rick Bartow, and Sonia Delaunay were a major influence for this body of work. I have been inspired by seeing their work in person, bringing with me this idea of the importance of making work. Each of these artists where highly prolific and were constantly experimenting with materials, concepts, and design principles. M. V. Moran recently earned her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. Moran has a BFA in Painting from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. She currently works in Eugene. The Truth Series Exhibition
September 1, 2017 - September 30, 2017 First Friday Art Walk September 1, 2017 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Hosted Reception lanearts.org/first-friday-artwalk/ InEugene Real Estate 100 E Broadway, Eugene, Oregon 97401 The Truth Series revolves around the human body. As much as I want to escape the loaded message of the nude or even the controversy of the female form, I cannot. The human body fascinates me in all of its complexity, be it emotional states, physical attributes or that human beings are the Image-Bearers of God. My work typically consists of self-portraits because I am researching what it means to be in this body. However, this new work is the body abstracted. The abstract paintings are part of the series, Truth. Although the paintings are abstracted pieces, the body is present. The flesh has been stripped away and now the soul, mind and strength are shown. The paint covers Biblical text and imagery. The abstracted forms are foregrounded in the picture plane and Truth is exposed. M.V. Moran recently earned her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She has a BFA in Painting from the University of Oregon. She currently works in Eugene, Oregon. New Work by M. V. Moran
Secondhand Melancholy Solo Exhibition July 5, 2017 - July 30, 2017 Sante Bar 411 NW Park Avenue Portland, Oregon 97209 First Thursday Art Walk, July 6, 2017 6pm - 8 pm This current body of work, Secondhand Melancholy, is about the inheritance of melancholy. This melancholy is an inheritance of distress of mind caused by loss, suffering and disappointment. The female form portrays and reflects on the definition of melancholy as an inherited emotion. The large-scale paintings use line and color to question melancholy and how this sadness surrounds and shifts the women in their isolated space. M.V. Moran recently earned her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. She has a BFA in Painting from the University of Oregon. She works in Eugene, Oregon. |
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