KATE MORAN
The work of Kate Moran evokes and reveals the artist's ongoing concern with
formal and conceptual dualities, questions of difference and the complexities
of the human condition. Grounded in her fascination with antique toys,
Moran's automata suggest the problematic of the inanimate and animate.
Moran's figures appear thwarted by purposeless repetition. The artist's
interest in re-presentation and her need to go beyond the readymade to evoke
a sense of longing for the authentic object exemplifies how materiality
and meaning converge in both the production and reception of her art.
Tantalizing the viewer with metaphors of fantasy and privacy, Moran constructs
provocative narratives that, ultimately, resist closure.
- Excerpted from exhibition pamphlet, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.