KMR Arts presents The Spell of Time by Andrew Moore. Opening reception and book signing with the artist, Saturday, June 1, 2024, 2-5pm.

Andrew Moore describes his work: “Here is a forest wading into a river. Here, a tangle of saplings penning a private script. Here is an artist in the act of making a landscape, a picture that feels familiar—didn’t Cole paint that? Didn’t Church? The first American painters in the Hudson River Valley saw the landscape as uniquely wild, a sublime symbol for the vast wilderness of the so-called New World. This world was not new, not wild, not, in the end, even that vast. Images of it went from mysterious to familiar with astonishing speed—until the actual landscapes came to resemble folding picture postcards of themselves. Today, any instagrammer can put herself in the picture. The Hudson River Art Trail offers signage at trailheads saying ‘Step into a landscape painting.’ Snap, tag, post—I was here—and then we too become one more piece of digitized data, one more ghost in the machine.”

Moore’s work is represented in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Four monographs of his work have been published: Inside Havana; Russia Detroit Disassembled and Andrew Moore: Cuba. 

2 Titus Rd, Washington Depot, kmrarts.com