ABOUT THE ARTIST
Malcolm Campbell Moran, a painter, printmaker, and sculptor, was born in 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1979, and prior to that he studied drawing at the Art Students League in New York City. He also holds a BA degree in Middle Eastern History from the University of the South. Malcolm currently lives and works from his studio in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Around the age of 8, Malcolm had a horse run away with him on a family adventure in the wilds of the Sonoran Desert in Mexico. Though it worked out well in the end, it left its impression on him. One minute everything seemed in control, and the next moment his life seemed in the balance. As an artist, this event led him to explore the relationship with horses, control, and communication in his work.
Moran’s background is eclectic. He notes, “I’m proficient in computer science, photography, and foreign language—acquired from an urge to learn the things that I needed to make my way in complicated circumstances. I have worked as a cab driver, a construction worker building offshore oil platforms, a middle-manager in a comic-book publishing company in Mexico, and a lending officer at a New York bank. I learned to speak Spanish in a communist language institute in Cuernavaca, Mexico.” In 2000, Moran turned full time to painting. “Painting is, and always has been, the way I process the life I experience.” He says, “I never thought that what I was doing was anything other than ‘speaking’ and ‘processing’ in the way that was most natural to me.”
Moran’s work has been exhibited in venues and galleries in Rhode Island, New Orleans, New York City, Connecticut, Vermont, and Ireland.
“I love art,” he says, “ I love to look at it, study it, and especially make it. I also love life and the people in my life, perhaps even more than art.” Moran has been married for 35 years to his wife, Elissa, and they have three sons, a daughter who is married, and three grand children.
