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about Moran's new work:
Kelly Moran offers a zany mixed bag of happy urban myth and late American culture POP to be sure, but at the same time so well executed that one wants to stop and think it all over. Moran takes advantage of an omnipotent time frame while jumping gender fences, and looking back at "the way we were" just far enough in the past to clue us into the fact that the human chemistry found in her works is universal. This year Moran's work "Spare Me" was added to the permanent collection on the Museum of Fine Arts Houston through a donation from Nancy Reddin Kienholz.
Moran excels at making the complex planning and process oriented work look inspired and of the moment. Her images are gleaned from the internet junk heap, vintage magazines and advertising, while working in woodcuts, lino-cuts, and some parts created with the latest digital technology and archival digital printing. d. m. allison Feb. 2013
bio:
Kelly Moran has a background in Painting, ceramics and printmaking. Her BFA is in painting from Louisiana Tech University with graduate studies from University of Houston in ceramics. She has a history connected to Houston through working at Little Egypt enterprises making ceramic editions and assisting in litho and intaglio editions in Houston in the eighties with master ceramicist Eileen Montgomery, Master printer Dave Folkman and Master Printer Penny Cerling. Moran left Houston in the late eighties and spent the nineties in New Jersey where she operated a ceramic studio showed work in New York City at Gallery Henoch and in several galleries in Philadelphia, New Hope, Pennsylvania while keeping the connection to Houston by showing work at Goldsberry gallery.
Travel was an important part of her education as an artist. During the nineties she traveled to Europe and Asia and at the end of the nineties lived with her husband in Jakarta Indonesia for two years. Her time was spent studying the vast ceramic and textile traditions of Indonesia. This was accomplished by visiting contemporary and traditional ceramic and textile artisans. She returned to Houston in 2001 with her husband and son.
The past ten years she has been exploring etching, four color Photo polymer, linocut, solar plates and inkjet printmaking techniques. She achieved her expertise in Printmaking by being the associate director of the now defunct Texas Collaborative Arts which made fine art Prints for local, national and international artist under the direction of Master Printmaker Dan Mitchell Allison. Presently she her studio and press is located in Houston Heights and she teaches Printmaking at the High School for Performing Arts and Visual arts. Her first solo exhibiton in Houston was held at the Nau-haus Art Space in March of 2011, followed by her second solo exhibition at d. m. allison art in April of 2012.
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