In the Media
The New York Times
Aug 14 2026
Now for Sale at Christie’s: Art by People Who Work at Christie’s
The auction house is displaying works made by its employees, who craft their works on kitchen tables and in living rooms.
Excerpt :
Sharks in the water
Maggie Moran, who manages a team that develops internal software and apps and has two paintings in “Inside Job,” said that she tries to paint for at least an hour when she gets home from work. She also spends one day of every weekend painting.
Moran has a degree in studio art. “But really quickly after graduation, I found out it’s very, very hard to make a sustainable living in fine art,” she said. She started her own business in Pennsylvania, coordinating digital art inventories for collectors. Eventually she moved to New York and was hired by a Christie’s subsidiary and then Christie’s itself.
Just before the pandemic shutdown, her roommate moved out of her two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Moran decided not to find another roommate and turned the second bedroom into a home office and studio. “Instead of sitting home and watching all the Netflix — which I did, of course, because everyone did,” she said, “I was like, I’m really going to take advantage of this extra time” — and paint.
One of her paintings in the sale is “Man Eaters,” an oil-on-canvas painting with three women in bathing suits in a small boat surrounded by sharks……
VoyageLA Magazine
Aug 10 2026
Check Out Maggie Moran’s Story
Today we’d like to introduce you to Maggie Moran.
Maggie, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I’ve been making art for as long as I can remember and always had some kind of creative project or craft underway. When it came time to choose a career path, art was the one field I felt certain would make me happy. I trusted that if I continued making work, I would find a way to build a life around it. I graduated from Lehigh University in 2011 with a degree in Studio Art.
After graduation, I quickly learned that creating a sustainable career would require me to branch beyond strictly artistic pursuits. I moved to York, Pennsylvania, where I became the director of a nonprofit gallery. At the same time, I started a small business digitizing art collections for private collectors. Computers had always made sense to me, but I had no idea that this venture would eventually lead me toward a career in technology……..
Educate: A Charity Exhibition at Christie's New York - Opening Reception
February 7, 2020
Tickets Available HERE
About this Event
On Friday, February 7th, 2020 at 6:30 PM EST, an opening reception will be held at Christie's New York commencing a charity art exhibition benefiting the Luminos Fund.
The Luminos Fund is a philanthropic organization which aims to bring the life-changing opportunity of education to the most disadvantaged children around the world. The night will include live performances, complimentary refreshments, and a SPIN New York sponsored ping-pong tournament open to the public.
The reception will inaugurate a group exhibition of global emerging artists of diverse styles, and mediums. Each artist will donate a single work into a silent auction with proceeds fully benefiting the Luminos Fund. Additional works will be available for purchase directly from the participating artists. The silent auction and artist's exhibition will remain open to the public until Tuesday, February 11th 2020. Read More…
“Sustaining Creativity In NYC”, 2019
by Fletcher Bonin
Article sourced from Portsmouth Abbey School Summer Bulletin 2019
“ …. distinctive style replicated throughout three mediums. “ The work I’m doing is pretty cyclical,” she explains - rotating between figurative, expressive, and oil pieces. Generally, she is “moving towards applying traditional methods to abstract, non-traditional subject matter……”
HYPERALLERGIC : Mead Art Museum Receives Over 170 Pieces of Contemporary Art From Anonymous Donor
Eric Vilas-Boas August 8, 2019
……..The Christie’s Staff Art Show closed at a final receipt of $39,625, selling various works from Christie’s employers with proceeds going to the charity Sing For Hope. The top of the ticket: Maggie Moran’s oil painting “Welcome Spring,” which sold for $5,625.”
The Directors of Christie’s
request the pleasure of your company at a reception and private viewing of
Inside Job: Christie’s Staff Art Show
Thursday, August 1
6pm – 9pm
20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
We are pleased to share that Inside Job, the 2019 New York Staff Art Show, is now open for bidding on christies.com. Take a look at the sale here and share the link with your clients—bidding closes on Monday, August 5.
The online sale presents 83 artworks by 50 Christie’s artists, with prices starting at $100. The Buyer’s Premium for each lot sold will be donated to Sing for Hope, our charity partner for the sale.
“Maggie G. Moran: Painting as Perpetual Transformation”, 2019
by Agora Gallery
Article sourced from www.artfixdaily.com
NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Maggie G. Moran in On Earth and Elsewhere. The exhibition opens January 4 and runs through January 24, 2019 with an opening reception on Thursday, January 10 from 6-8 pm. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
About the Artist
Maggie G. Moran is an abstract painter who focuses on the continuation of line and patterns in space, translated onto a two-dimensional surface. Moran describes herself as an intuitive painter of invisible forces and vibrations that, in their repetition, dictate our individual reality. For Moran, painting is about trusting the process itself. For her, a specific emotion or a color chord serves as a starting point that she then allows to develop into a composition naturally.
Moran works with layers of transparent oils, though occasionally she experiments with materials like tape, wax, or epoxy. Her paintings, such as Ode or Waiting Room demonstrate that she has a keen eye for color and composition, and also handles line masterfully. She enjoys the fact that each viewer sees something different in her work. The artist believes that paintings are akin to clouds that are always transforming into new shapes. Moran has dedicated her career to art. She studied Studio Art at Lehigh University and has worked as a Curator, Art Consultant, and Gallery Director.
Maggie G. Moran, Waiting Room, Oil on Canvas, 24'' x 48''
Maggie G. Moran, Bicicletta, Oil on Canvas, 30'' x 30''
Maggie G. Moran, Strange Space, Mixed media on canvas, 48'' x 24'
“On Earth and Elsewhere” Press Package
On Earth and Elsewhere takes as its point of departure two of the most significant themes in Western art: namely, the landscape and the human face. Taken together, the ten artists on exhibit offer up a meditative vista regarding how individuals and groups experience their relationship to the earth….read more
https://www.artrabbit.com/events/on-earth-and-elsewhere
https://cititour.com/NYC_Events/On-Earth-and-Elsewhere/29672/print
http://www.brooklynartproject.com/events/on-earth-and-elsewhere
http://artpickle.com/Index.cfm?artpage=Eventdetail&EventID=4381
https://www.eleventary.com/event/on-earth-and-elsewhere-86662
””The abstract painter Maggie G. Moran begins with a specific emotion or a color chord that she allows to develop naturally into a full-fledged composition. For Moran, painting is about trusting the process itself. In the painting Bicicletta she masterfully creates a composition that balances between figuration and abstraction. A careful investigation of the painting reveals that embedded within the complex abstract composition there are the spinning wheels of a bicycle as it moves through a landscape. The more one looks, the more the information the painting yields. Moran enjoys the fact that each viewer will see something different in this work. @mgmoranfineart””
Bicicletta | Oil on Canvas is part of On Earth and Elsewhere group exhibition, on view at the gallery until January 24.
