MALCOLM MORLEY

After moving to New York in 1958, Morley gradually worked his way into the New York art world, where he met Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman and became friends with Roy Lichtenstein. Very soon Morley left abstract art in favor of highly realistic paintings which established his reputation as one of the founders of the Photorealist movement.

Morley’s intensely individual style embraced autobiography, politics, psychoanalysis, myths, the visual culture of his time and the limitless potential of paint. Throughout the years of artist’s work, his signature subjects included the nautical scenes, fighter planes and airplanes, often draws upon various sources and deeply connected to his childhood memories.

Morley showed internationally for the rest of his career, including major retrospectives at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France, 1993), the Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA, 1984) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, USA).

Courtesy Gary Tatintsian Gallery