DC Moore Gallery presents Carrie Moyer: Morphologies, featuring all new works on paper surrounding a single new painting, on view from April 1 – 30, 2022. An opening reception with Carrie Moyer (CRF 2019) will take place on Friday, April 1 from 6- 8pm.
Carrie Moyer’s new works on paper map out an evolving index of forms that are used from one work to the next or reabsorbed onto canvas, as seen in the painting featured in this exhibition. The term “morphology,” with its utilitarian relationship to biology, actively calls out the natural forms that have been a constant in the artist’s oeuvre for many years. Recent compositions shift between allusions to landscape and the symbolic space of the icon, radiating a sense of timelessness due to the frequent use of symmetry and ornamentation. In this body of work, Moyer looks to the transcendental feeling for nature held by 20th century American painters (Agnes Pelton, Joseph Stella, Charles Burchfield, and Arthur Dove) as well as broader aesthetic traditions of India and Asia.
After creating a large-scale, collaborative work on paper during her time at Civitella in 2019, Moyer developed an interest in the quality of light made possible by this material. She continues to explore paper’s unique ability to make color both fluid and luminous in the service of a kind of ‘embodied’ abstraction. She states that “On paper, my fondness for a comic, sci-fi sensibility turns metaphysical and atmospheric through the repeated process of staining, salting, and spraying the surface with inks and water. Everything is saturated.” Learn more about the exhibition here.
Image: Arrangement #14, 2021
Mixed media and collage on paper
15 3/16 x 11 inches