Jay Etkin Gallery
Address: 942 Cooper Street, Memphis, TN 38104
Dates: March 17 - April 29, 2023
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11am - 5pm
Website: jayetkingallery.com
From the Studio is a response to the Tennessee Triennial theme of RE-PAIR featuring works by Carl E. Moore of Memphis, TN.
From the Studio pulls artwork from the artist’s space that reflects and represents a history of developing conversations about the people and landscape around him. The exhibition is a collaboration of new and previous work that shows an ongoing conversation about living and working in the Black community.
This narrative includes politics, conflict, happiness, peace, loss, indifference, and anger. Set in a salon style layout, the work is arranged in a nonlinear format to represent the unpredictability of life. Nothing happens in a straight line; we live day by day playing events as they happen. Doing this process we create, we build, we heal, we repair and sometimes we destroy. We transform the world around us based on our personal needs and needs of our environment. We live.
image: Carl E. Moore, Recovery, 2022
Carl E. Moore was born 1965 in Canton, Mississippi. He currently lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee as an artist. He attended the Memphis College of Art where he received a BFA and MFA. He’s the recipient of the Emmett O'Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration and the Tennessee Artist Fellowship award from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. He has exhibited in various galleries and museums in the Memphis area and around the country.
His work deals with identity and color by comparing social ideologies about race, stereotypes, and personal beliefs to everyday colors and the perception of these colors in our environment.
He uses media-based events as the primary theme of his work. By taking those situations and reducing them down to their most basic form, he creates a narrative. He uses color and content to redefine conversations by developing a social connection between the characters and their environment, making the color part of the social statement.
He considers his work to be a form of visual communication using simplicity and depth to express social and ethical issues. He wants to create a conversation between both 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, it allows him to deal with specific subjects from various perspectives.
