Pair of 2017 Barb Moran Marker Drawings on Paper

Item Details

Untitled, 2017
Marker on paper
Signed “B. Moran” to lower right
Dated to lower right

Barb Moran (American; 20th/21st century)
Untitled 2017
Marker on paper
Signed ‘B. Moran’ to lower right
Dated to lower right

Provenance
From the studios of Visionaries + Voices – a non-profit organization that provides exhibition opportunities, studio space, supplies, and support to more than 125 visual artists with disabilities.

A pair of untitled marker drawings on paper by Kansas-based artist Barb Moran (20th/21st century), both created in 2017. The horizontal drawing features an illustration of a personified traffic light in an abstracted mountainous landscape. The work is signed and dated to the lower right. The vertical drawing features an illustration of a man on the river bank holding a freshly caught fish. This work is also signed and dated to the lower right. Neither drawing is mounted and both remain unframed.

Barb Moran is a veteran artist with Visionaries + Voices. Now residing in Topeka, Kansas, she participates in V+V by mailing her drawings, making the packages a part of her process. Moran creates surrealist illustrations featuring her object characters in everyday situations. She frequently exhibits drawings and fiber art at V+V. In 2009 Moran won an Honorable Mention in Bryn Mawr‘s annual Art Ability juried show. She is in the process of finding a publisher for her autobiography, Hello Stranger, The Barb Moran Story.

“To me, ordinary people were boring. I couldn’t understand them and they didn’t understand me; I was driven into a world of daydreams because I had no way to communicate the only thoughts I could have. I never really liked the way people looked and how it felt to touch them, and that had a lot to do with it. They only looked like people; objects just looked and felt better to me. I did like my brothers and sisters and friends of the family. But still to me people were boring. It seemed there was nothing I could think – let alone say – that anyone wanted to hear. I pretty much had to be by myself to do things I wanted to do.”

Condition

- minor wear to edges of paper.

Dimensions

- measurement of horizontal drawing; vertical drawing measures approximately 11" W x 14" H.

Item #

18DCC475-040