Name/Title
Utopia #2Entry/Object ID
2021.10.01Description
Canadian abstract painter Kristine Moran (b. 1974, Montreal, Quebec) is best known for her vibrant, geometric artworks on canvas or linen. Her paintings are often reactionary and nonrepresentation, allowing new subject matter to arise during the painting process. Through rhythmic and flowing forms, Moran often conveys a sense of water-like movement, possibly owing to the artist's daily habit of swimming.
In her new series of landscape paintings, Moran reworks her signature blocks of colour into fields of impressionistic markings on linen. The imagery draws from personal sketches created during a road trip across the United States. Their meaning has shifted over time from an archive of her experience to a way of testing the parameters of her art. The series title, Utopia, reflects not only the idealistic landscapes seen by the artist during her travels and the abstract pastoral scenery depicted in the works but a visual harmony achieved by formally and skillfully balancing the composition and narrative.
Kristine Moran earned a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2004 and an MFA from Hunter College, NYC in 2008. She has exhibited at Monica DeCardenas Gallery, Milan; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York City; The Hole NYC; Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, FlashArt, MOMUS and Artslant.com, as well as in NYArts Magazine, Canadian Art Magazine, Bordercrossings, Art Papers, Elle Magazine and Harper’s. Moran’s work is featured in Phaidon’s painting anthology, Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. Her work is included in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum and the University of Toronto. In early 2021, Moran will have a solo exhibition at The Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound.
https://www.kristinemoran.com/Artwork Details
Medium
oil and acrylic on linenDimensions
Height
35.6 cmWidth
27.9 cm