I Saw the Night Split Into Multitudes, 2024

Craig Moran   Emerging artists

Piles of discarded paintings, decorative paper, and photographs from nature books sit on a table in my studio. I cut out shapes from these materials, rearrange them at random to create new images, and photograph the results. I repeat this process several times, occasionally cutting up the photographed assemblages to rearrange them further. These spontaneous collages are the inspirations for the mysterious, colorful figures in my paintings.

Education:

BA in English and Studio Art, University of Virginia Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing, School of Art Institute of Chicago

Awards & Distinctions:

Fifth-year Arts Fellowship, University of Virginia

Exhibitions:

2017 Solo Art Show: Spaced Out, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 Art of Painting 2015: National Juried Exhibition at Washington Art Association, Washington
Depot, Connecticut
2015 Art by America: A Review of 2-Dimensional Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
2014 Small Works Exhibition at Porter Mill Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts
2014 TRAHC's 26th Annual Juried Exhibition, Texarkana, Texas
2014 Jax Juried Exhibition, Jacksonville Center for the Arts, Floyd, Virginia
2014 GRACE Artist Member Exhibition, Reston, Virginia
2013 Solo Art Show: Paintings From the Other Side of the Fence, Artworks Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland

Artistic Influences:

Elizabeth Murray
James Ensor
Jean Helion
Karel Appel
Asger Jorn

Tags:

Surrealism, outsider art, abstract, fantasy, color, geometry.