The Mystic and the Cycad, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York City, October 10 - November 10, 2013
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is delighted to present a show of new works by Kristine Moran. Central to the artist’s third solo exhibition of paintings at the gallery are moments of biotic, supernatural, and aesthetic metamorphosis iterated in the recursive elaboration of two salient figures: the mystic and the cycad.
Reconciling within her works a forceful entanglement between figuration and abstraction, frenetic perspectival shifts, biomorphic gestures, otherworldly hues, and jungly, atmospheric washes, the seemingly antithetic yearnings of Moran’s manifold aesthetic means coalesce into an exploratory painterly engagement with liminal states between forms of being. Suffused with art historical and personal encodings, the mystic’s navigation of the interstices between life and death is rendered throughout with an urgent and hallucinatory visual logic bounded by the rationalist backdrop of a greenhouse’s hard-edged armature.
Mystic and the cycad, 2013, oil on canvas, 72” x 66”
Mutating gods, 2013, oil on canvas, 60” x 48”
Day blindness, 2013, oil on canvas, 66” x 48”
Night Vision (Mystic speaking with the dead), 2013, oil on canvas
Mystic becoming cycad, 2013, oil on canvas, 78” x 60”
The botanist’s dilemma, 2013, oil on canvas, 18” x 14”
Visions and longings, 2013, oil on canvas, 112”x 72”