SIRENS

"Sirens" marks APT artist Carrie Moyer’s first exhibition with DC Moore Gallery. Moyer’s sumptuous paintings on canvas explore and extend the legacy of American Abstraction while paying homage to many of its seminal female figures among them Helen Frankenthaler, Elizabeth Murray, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Rife with visual precedents, Moyer’s compositions reference Color Field, Pop Art and 1970s Feminist art - while proposing a new approach to fusing history, research and experimentation in painting. An exhibition catalogue, with a conversation between the artist and Katy Siegel, will be available.

Treating color more like a three dimensional substance, Moyer pushes its possibilities past the concrete, and the obvious towards a kind of “embodied” abstraction. In Moyer’s compositions color is the sole character, playing every role: energy, matter, ooze, architecture, the cosmic and the cosmos. Through her use of gravity, velocity and stasis Moyer transforms and frees vivid primary hues to express new kinds of animation or fullness, which in turn propels Moyer’s ongoing exploration of her medium. Each pour visibly changes speed or direction ultimately bursting out into blooms of color. Graphic portals and archways reveal slow moving tide pools or languid, floating odalisques. From deep red cavities to purple washes the infinite range of material allusion or pictorial illusion reveal Moyer’s ongoing experimentation in acrylic paint. In the studio, Moyer engages in a nearly taboo “erotics of craft," delivering the paintings of Sirens – each ready to sing their pleasure in streams of unfettered color. 

Carrie Moyer in conversation with Amy Smith-Stewart, Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum:
Wednesday, March 16 at 6:30 PM