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Ivan Morley's paintings are inspired by the frontiersman's lore of scrappy, dried-out California towns with names like San Gabriel, El Monte, and Tehachapi. Such locales and their all-but-forgotten (and possibly artist-fabricated) histories--if you can call tales of memorable cockfights and observations on the behavior of squirrels histories-seem unlikely sources of inspiration.
Yet, from a mass of myth, a dose of his own vivid imagination, and a range of raw material, Morley has created some mighty idiosyncratic pictures. The show as a whole was pulled together with a keen sense of detail, with texts telling a few of the stories rendered carefully on the walls. To create his paintings, Morley applies dyed fabric, wax, varnish, dense patches of colored thread, and, occasionally, oil paint to a range of supports that includes denim, glass, linen, and canvas. Sometimes he paints on glass, peels the image off, and affixes it to another support.
BIOGRAPHY
1966
Born in Burbank
Lives and works in Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2005
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
2004
Bernier / Eliades, Athens, Greece
2003
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
2002
Essor Gallery, London, England
2001
Frehrking Wiesehoefer, Cologne, Germany
Selections from “A True Tale,” “Brazilian T-Shirt,” and “Dig”, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
1998
George’s, Los Angeles
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Painting in Tongues, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2005
Ab Ovo, Cartelle Gallery, Marina del Rey; Rolf Ricke, Cologne; Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco; Angstrom Gallery, Texas
2004
Looking at Painting II, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
2003
Ivan Morley, Christian Schumann, Jim Shaw, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Gibt’s Mich Wirklich, works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schurmann Collection-K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
2002
Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris, France
Startkapital, K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
2001
22nd Annual Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
2000
Paintland, organized by Terry R. Myers, Lemon Sky Project Space, Hollywood
1998
Group Show, Gallery 207, Los Angeles
1997
Buffet, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas
Shooting Gallery, Harm Reduction Central – Clean Needles Now, Los Angeles
Article Theme :-
Ivan Morley’s complex, color-saturated paintings are visual extrapolations made within an associative game that starts with history. Born in Burbank, California in the mid-60s - seemingly a time and place of little history - Morley begins his work by excavating shards of little-known historical anecdotes and fact from LA’s frontier past in the mid 19th century.
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