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Artist Ivan Morley’s Art Work and Paintings at the Saatchi Gallery

12.27.2009 · Posted in Batik

Ivan Morley describes his paintings as poetic myth objects. Drawing from the Wild West ancestry of his hometown in California, Morleys works which range from folk-style illustration to full-fledged abstraction combine fact and more than a little historical embellishment in their narrative motifs. Using such unorthodox materials as thread, glass, fabric, batik, soap, and KY ...

Ivan Morley – Paintings – the Saatchi Gallery

12.26.2009 · Posted in Batik

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 ...