RPLH

The exhibition spans several decades of work from one of the most restless and unclassifiable artists of his generation. From the 1960s, when Morley provoked New York’s art scene with deadpan paintings of banal cruise liners taken from travel brochures, to the late 1990s, when critic Katy Siegel, writing in Artforum, likened him to “a rock icon who neglected to die young or burn out”. In 1964, unable to paint the vast cargo ships visible from his Hudson River studio, Morley reached for a postcard instead – cutting it into squares and copying each one onto a scaled-up gridded canvas. What…