Malcolm Morley

  • Malcolm Morley, P-40 Warhawk Soaring, 2013

    Malcolm Morley

    P-40 Warhawk Soaring, 2013

    Oil on linen

    Signed recto

    Image dimensions:
    61 x 76.2 cm / 24 x 30 inches
    Framed dimensions:
    65.6 x 80.6 cm / 25.8 x 31.7 inches

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  • Malcolm Morley's blues are extraordinary. Card-table flat and infinite, they collapse all sense of proximity. At once remote and wild with their gnarly collisions of space and time, Morley's paintings induce a sublime kind of nausea.

     

    - Dana Schutz 

  • Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023 Ph: Gunter Lepkowski (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, 2023

  • The fundamental aspect, the motor that drove Malcolm‘s passion for painting, was sensation. Sensation being the unmediated bodily response to the outside world through the senses; in this case, the sense of sight. Malcolm admired the art of Van Gogh, Cézanne and Picasso, artists whom he felt were more concerned with presenting the world as something made with paint, to create a new visual experience, rather than being concerned with what the subject matter was ‘about’.

  • Selected Institutional Exhibitions
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Works from the Hall Collection, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany, 2017-18 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Works from the Hall Collection, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany, 2017-18 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Shipwreck, Nova Southern University Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Shipwreck, Nova Southern University Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley at the Ashmolean: Paintings and Drawings from the Hall Collection, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Paintings, 1965-82, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, 1983 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Installation view, Malcolm Morley: Works from the Hall Collection, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany, 2017-18

  • Malcolm Morley, Born 1931 in London, Died 2018 in Bellport, NY

    Ph: Jason Schmidt

    Courtesy – The Estate of Malcolm Morley

     

    Malcolm Morley

    Born 1931 in London, Died 2018 in Bellport, NY

    Malcolm Morley is acknowledged as one of the earliest innovators of Superrealism, which developed as a counterpoint to Pop Art in the 1960s. Over the course of his distinguished career, Morley defied stylistic characterization, moving by turns through so-called abstract, realist, Neo-romantic, and Neo-expressionist painterly modes, while being attentive to his own biographical experiences. Morley studied at the Camberwell College of Arts and the Royal College of Art.

     

    Over his lifetime, Morley had numerous retrospectives, hosted by institutions like the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1983); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1983); Brooklyn Museum, New York (1984); Tate Liverpool (1991); Kunsthalle Basel (1991); Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (1992); Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (1993); Fundación La Caixa, Madrid (1995); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (1995); Hayward Gallery, London (2001) and the Hall Art Foundation, Vermont (2019).

     

    Morley has participated in numerous international surveys, including Documenta 5 (1972) and Documenta 6 (1977), and was awarded the inaugural Turner Prize in 1984.

     

    His works are held in major public collections such as the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris; the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate, London; the Collection Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.