Hirschl & Adler Modern is pleased to present "Poetry of Place," a solo exhibition of thirteen new oil paintings by John Moore. This is the artist’s sixteenth solo exhibition with Hirschl & Adler Modern, marking nearly forty years of representation with the gallery.
Moore’s is a unique brand of realism infused with artifice. In invented worlds he juxtaposes that which is directly observed with things remembered or imagined, revealing multiple layers of time, space, and experience. Though completed in his studio in Belfast, Maine, where he now resides full-time, the paintings’ organic, industrial, and urban elements are drawn from memories and direct observation, both past and present, from Moore’s working-class upbringing in St. Louis to a career spent living in New Haven, Boston, and Philadelphia. The artist has noted that everything in his paintings “is real…, or should have been real, or could be real.”
