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Ivan Morley\u2019s latest exhibition is at Bortolami Gallery through February 18<\/a>. A lifelong Californian, Morley partakes of a tradition Jerry Saltz has called \u201cclusterfuck aesthetics,\u201d fusing pop images to emblems of American subcultures. Among the materials he\u2019s used in these works: tooled leather, mother of pearl, and KY jelly. By his own account, the two recurring titles in this series, \u201cTehachepi\u201d and \u201cA True Tale,\u201d refer to apocryphal stories from the Old West\u2014the former concerns\u00a0\u201cnative family life in a town where the wind was so strong it could alter the trajectory of a bullet,\u201d where the latter involves\u00a0\u201can entrepreneur who made a fortune shipping cats to a rat-infested city.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ivan Morley, Tehachepi (sic)<\/i>, 2003, acrylic, oil, thread, batik and u.v. varnish on denim, 60″ x 45″<\/p><\/div>\n

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Logo<\/i>, 2005, oil, acrylic dye, wax, KY jelly and u.v. varnish on linen over panel, 43 1\/4″ x 36″<\/p><\/div>\n

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Emblem<\/i>, 2005, acrylic and dye on tooled leather over panel, 44″ x 25 1\/2″<\/p><\/div>\n

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A True Tale<\/i>, 2016, thread on canvas, 50″ x 43″<\/p><\/div>\n

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A True Tale<\/i>, 2016, thread on canvas, 72″ x 39″<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tehachepi (sic)<\/i>, 2016, oil with gold, and mother of pearl on glass 32″ x 24″<\/p><\/div>\n

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A True Tale<\/i>, 2016, thread on canvas, 33″ x 29″<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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