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Malcom Morley: Another way to make an image at Sue Scott Gallery in New York

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Since 2006, Malcolm Morley has made over twenty-five monotypes and monoprints with One Eye Pug/Sue Scott Gallery. Despite being an accomplished printmaker who had made numerous other types of prints, this body of work was Morley’s first foray into the monotype medium. Morley uses the monotype medium not as a staid or simplistic process of transference, but rather as an investigation of how the pressure of a press affects imagery. In each monotype, Morley pushed experimentation, never using the exact same technique twice. In Rushing to Miami, 2006, printed with master printer Kathy Caraccio, he used Mylar as the plate on which to paint the exotic and colorful kites floating above a tropical setting. The Mylar caused the watercolor to pool in areas resulting in porcelain like quality that he could not have achieved on the more porous surface of paper. After going through the press,