Morán Morán

Presentation Details
Morán Morán will present a group of vibrant figurative works on paper by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, new large-scale paintings by Chelsea Culprit and Kenny Rivero, and an intricate heat-transfer piece by Borna Sammak. All four artists have their own approach to translating imagery that swings between narrative and symbolism. Adeniyi-Jones’s depictions of stylized figures and flora are steeped in West African aesthetics from a distinctly diasporic perspective. Moving freely between the pictorial imagery of folk art and the materiality of the real world, Culprit’s works are composed of feelings as much as descriptions. Rivero’s paintings and drawings are containers of his personal history, exploring what he perceives as the broken narrative of Dominican-American identity, familial expectations, race, and gender roles. Sammak’s striking compositions embed and encrypt the material of daily life, splitting and recombining mundane objects and texts, signs, slogans, clothes, or cartoons, into compressed metaphors and dense patterns.

About the Gallery
Morán Morán is a contemporary art gallery founded in Los Angeles in 2008, exhibiting work in a variety of media including: painting, drawing, installation, video, photography, and sculpture. The gallery currently represents Diana Al-Hadid, Brian Belott, Charlie Billingham, Keltie Ferris, Eve Fowler, Michael Genovese, Luis Gispert, George Herms, Terence Koh, Eric N. Mack, Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe, Anders Ruhwald, Jacolby Satterwhite, David Benjamin Sherry, Agathe Snow, Willie Stewart, Torey Thornton, Kon Trubkovich, and Nick van Woert. Founded in 2012 by the gallery, Know Wave (operating out of New York City, Los Angeles, London, and Tokyo) is an international community platform that promotes expression through music, exhibitions, interviews, and happenings.