Spotlight Artist

Carl E. Moore

South
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Brittney’s Dress

Person selecting clothes from a rack in a colorful, stylized illustration.

acrylic on canvas

Mr. and Mrs. Black America

Two stylized profiles face each other with a window and moon in the background.

acrylic and gouache on canvas, two parts, each

Recovery

Stylized person with a red cap lying in bed, mostly covered by white blankets.

acrylic on canvas

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Artist Statement

 My work deals with color and identity. My goal is to compare ideologies about race, stereotypes, and belief systems to everyday colors and the perception of these colors in our environment.

I consider my work to be a form of visual communication that uses simplicity and depth to express social and ethical issues. I want to create a conversation between the personal and public by using color and composition to express mood, situation, and ideas. By placing people and objects in common and uncommon situations, I can deal with specific subjects from various perspectives.

I use media-based events as the primary theme of my work, reducing situations to their most basic narrative. I use color and content to redefine the conversation by developing a social connection between the characters and their environment. The color becomes an important part of that dialogue, and the content becomes part of the social statement.

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