MALCOLM CAMPBELL MORAN
DREAMS, MYTHS, MEMORIES

OPENING February 19, 2005

AT 320 EXCHANGE PLACE IN NEW ORLEANS

EXHIBIT TO RUN THROUGH MARCH, 2005

Oil on canvas, charcoal on paper, gouache on paper and bronze are the varied mediums used by Malcolm Campbell Moran for his significant homecoming exhibit in New Orleans exploring dreams, myths and memories. Dreams are the raw material for Moran’s expansive new work:

“Dreams are illogical and timeless, a relief from the linear, black and white world which sometimes can dominate and limit consciousness.

“Myths seem like simple stories, with nonsensical lots connecting strange people adventuring in odd and dangerous worlds. Yet these stories linger---they are timeless. They describe a core reality which no other literature can touch. My images are meant to embrace this ineffable world.

“Distant memories are by their nature childlike, cut from the same cloths as dreams. New Orleans in the 40’s and 50’s was, in so many ways, the perfect backdrop for my memories and dreams. Many of my childhood memories involve staring out of my window at the crowns of palm trees surrounding my bedroom, the cemetery across the street, the smells, the sounds and the people running here and there, doing this and that.”

A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, with work in numerous private collections throughout the United States, Malcolm Moran currently maintains a studio in Greenwich, Connecticut where he lives with his wife Elissa and his family.