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David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce Tragegedy, [sic], a solo exhibition of new works by Ivan Morley. The exhibition will be on view in New York at 520 W. 20th St. from March 6 through April 26, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 6 from 6 to 8 PM.
Morley has continued to build on a decades-old typology where form, color, and material layer to create paintings that are as much object as they are rendered image. Each piece is produced by painting an underlayer in watercolor and slowly building onto the canvas with thread, focusing on small, embroidery-ring-sized sections at a time, so that the completed work isn’t revealed to the artist until the end of the embroidery process. Looking therefore becomes secondary to the act of building or constructing an image on a micro scale.
Inspired by the title of a Bee Gees song, Tragegedy, [sic] alludes to the way a musician may elongate or alter the pronunciation of a word to...More
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David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce Tragegedy, [sic], a solo exhibition of new works by Ivan Morley. The exhibition will be on view in New York at 520 W. 20th St. from March 6 through April 26, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 6 from 6 to 8 PM.
Morley has continued to build on a decades-old typology where form, color, and material layer to create paintings that are as much object as they are rendered image. Each piece is produced by painting an underlayer in watercolor and slowly building onto the canvas with thread, focusing on small, embroidery-ring-sized sections at a time, so that the completed work isn’t revealed to the artist until the end of the embroidery process. Looking therefore becomes secondary to the act of building or constructing an image on a micro scale.
Inspired by the title of a Bee Gees song, Tragegedy, [sic] alludes to the way a musician may elongate or alter the pronunciation of a word to...More
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