WELCOME THE LIMINAL ZONE
DENNIS MOORE ART
I am a multi-media artist who primarily works in drawing, painting, collage, and video art. Currently I am focused on large scale paintings using strong elements of abstraction, pattern, color and figuration. I want the observer to experience a tangible expression of raw creative energy and in that sense my work relates to those movements in art that value direct expression such as tribal/indigenous art, outsider art, and children's art. In seeming contradiction to this love of the raw is the simultaneous embrace of comic book art, illustrations of all types, religious art and the paintings of the old masters. My subjects include strange beings and misfits that populate street scenes and inhabit a wide variety of liminal zones. This multitude of imagined forms is mirrored in a myriad of abstract and organic forms and together they combine and separate as one becomes the other in my work. My hope is that this artwork can be appreciated regardless of the cultural background of the viewer and that one comes away with a feeling of mystery and a hint of the inexpressible.
Bio and CV
Dennis Moore is a multi-media artist focused on drawing and painting with a BFA from Texas State University. He is from the town of Pharr, Texas and moved to Austin, Texas at the age of eighteen. Dennis has been drawing continually since his childhood and his influences are varied. From prehistoric art and the great masters, to film and comic books he is continuously living and learning within the world of art. Attending University as a nontraditional student, coupled with his years of self education in art has enabled him to make great strides in his building his artistic skills.
Group Exhibitions
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2021 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Texas State Galleries, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2021 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Online Exhibition , Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2021 Yard Marvels
Group Exhibition, Collection Rert, Austin, TX
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2021 What is it?
Online Exhibition, Collection Rert, Austin, TX
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2020 Artopsy: Perceptions of the Body
Online Exhibition, contributor and co-curator
2020 Daniel Johnston Day, Hallway Exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, Tx
2019 Student Juried Exhibition, Texas State Galleries, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Jenny Gheith, Juror.
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2016 Fall Student Exhibition, Austin Community College, Austin, TX
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