Ivan Morley – Paintings – the Saatchi Gallery
Ivan Morley’s paintings are inspired by the frontiersman’s lore of scrappy, dried-out California towns with names like San Gabriel, El Monte, and Tehachapi. Such locales and their all-but-forgotten (and possibly artist-fabricated) histories–if you can call tales of memorable cockfights and observations on the behavior of squirrels histories-seem unlikely sources of inspiration. Yet, from a mass ...