Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present Kristine Moran’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, Protean Slip.

Imbued with the transforming and multifarious qualities of the prophetic Greek god Proteus, Moran’s new body of work insists less on narrative than on illusory spaces where the elusivity of dreams and hallucinations interrupt modals of logic. Free from the protests and interferences of conscience, Protean Slip’s amplified palette and progressive forms offer an intersection between art, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur.

In their constantly shifting and mutable forms, Moran’s characters are loosely threaded from a vast, personal collection of references that range from literary, cultural to the art historical. In ‘Black Winter Morning’, a title borrowed from Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, Moran weaves wildly varying perspectives into a unified space, inspiring possible associations such as the Surrealist, Baroque and Orphic Cubism movements. Rendered from Moran’s gestural iconography, the central protagonist in this piece becomes transmorphed and devolved into something irrational and fragmentary, a primal human condition that often marks her characters. Combined with the spatial tension that saturates her paintings, these primal forces allow for an emotive dimension to her work that migrates from the familiar to the abstract.

Canadian born artist Kristine Moran lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2008. Moran has shown internationally with exhibitions at Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan; Clark & Faria, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; and Western Exhibitions, Chicago. Moran will be included in the upcoming Phaidon publication Vitamin P2.