SOLO EXHIBITION – TONY MOORE: ETERNAL BECOMING – Sculptures & Fire Paintings
TONY MOORE: ETERNAL BECOMING – Ceramic Sculptures & Fire Paintings, Garrison Art Center, 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY 10524. April 6 to May 7, 2023. Opening Reception: Saturday April 8, 5 – 7 pm. Artist Talk: Sunday April 23, 2 pm. Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10 am – 5 pm, Saturday, 12 am – 5 pm, Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm. Tel: (845) 424-3960. Email: info@garrisonartcenter.org
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Tony Moore: Eternal Becoming
Wood-fired Ceramic Sculptures and Fire Paintings
Opens at
Garrison Art Center, April 8 to May 7
Press Release: April 1, 2023
Dear Friends,
Garrison Art Center, 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY www.garrisonartcenter.org is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of “Tony Moore: Eternal Becoming. Wood-fired Ceramic Sculptures and Fire Paintings”, opening April 8 to May 7, 2023. The exhibition features 3 large solid mass ceramic and steel sculptures, 5 smaller Open Form slab-constructed sculptures and groupings of 25 ceramic and glass Fire Paintings on the walls. A newly published 38-page catalogue will be available, featuring informative essays by Carl Van Brunt and Doug Navarra.
Tony Moore is represented in international museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, US and Derby Museum and Yorkshire Museum, UK. This will be his second solo exhibition with GAC in the Hudson Valley where, after 25 years in NYC he has resided and maintained a studio in Cold Spring for another 25 years where, on a mountain top property, he built a Japanese style Anagama-Noborigama wood-fire kiln. His ceramic works are fired in the kiln three times a year in communal week-long events.
Moore’s practice is concerned with the relationship of humanity and nature. He conceives of an expanded concept of ‘Nature’ as embodying all existence, both the seen and unseen, socio-political events, daily occurrences, as well as private intuitions that are made concrete through creative action. His objects are places of remembrance where multiplicities of associations take place. Most recently, these have been concerned with issues of the human condition.
Of the works in this exhibition, the artist has written “In recent ceramic sculptures, and Fire Paintings, abstracted figures — made from cut twigs — are impressed into wet clay. As I investigated, the figures kept running, fleeing, tumbling, searching, moving away from, and towards something else. They moved across landscapes towards glowing edifices and systemized structures, which both beckoned them, and somehow dominated them. The figures were present, yet also in spirit form, floating and dissolving in diaphanous light, and shimmering waters. Twigs became fathers, mothers, and children. They became surrogates, rather like small children’s dolls, playing out a deeply psychological fiction of desperately searching for ‘something’. Something hopeful, yet presently out of reach. Something eternally becoming …”
Within the context of current issues such as migration, global pandemic, and now the Russian-Ukraine war, these abstracted works evoke both contemporary anxieties, and aspirations toward the future.
www.TonyMooreArt.com
Opening Reception: Saturday April 8, 5 -7 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday April 23, 2 pm
Meet the Artist: every Sunday from 3 – 5 pm
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Friday, 10 am – 5 pm
Saturday, 12 pm – 5 pm
Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm
Tony Moore, All Together 2022, wood-fired ceramic, glass, 21 3/4″ x 22 1/2″ x 10″
Photo credit Al Nowak, On Location
Tony Moore, Fire Painting 2022, wood-fired ceramic, glass
Photo credit Al Nowak, On Location
The artist with In Memory Of 2022, wood-fired ceramic, steel
Photo credit, Al Nowak, On Location
Tony Moore, In Memory Of 2022, wood-fired ceramic, steel
Photo credit, Al Nowak, On Location
*High resolution images & further information available on request.
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