I search: To exhibith art and ideas with like-minded souls. I offer: All I am capable of... About: I normally seek a few exhibitions these days as my work's core migrates, and I entertain invitations, or publishing collaborations. Just drop me a line if you have an idea...
School: University of North Texas, Denton, Texas USA
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I began exhibiting Landscapes in Dallas, Texas, USA about 1979. My first exhibitions were at the 'Old' Allen Street Gallery, then Turtle Creek Gallery, and later with Ruth Wiseman Gallery - all in Dallas. Also, I was curated into exhibitions at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. The Heard Museum, in McKinney, TX., several shows with The Houston Center for Photography (HCP) USA, a permanent exhibit at Strictly Tabu, Dallas, and landscapes of Galapagos at the Crescent Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky USA. I have shown art in numerous other group and solo shows. I have served as juror and curator for exhibitions of other artist's works. (Including "Diptych Duets," here...) I have exhibited collaborational art at the Dallas McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), and have exhibited three times in Guadalajara, Mexico - including a solo photography exhibition at the National Museum (Hospicio Cabanas), and two exhibitions at the Galiera Azul (also in Guadalajara). I recently exhibited in New York at the Williamsburg Art Historical Center in Brooklyn, USA, and exhibited 2 & 3-D works in an exhibition in San Francisco, California, titled: "Corrections," at the SomArts Cultural Center, Spring 2009. Also, in 2009, was my, "(*)Freedom Art," artwork & words exhibited in the opening of a traveling show - beginning at the Mount Beacon Fine Arts Gallery in Beacon, NY., and later the pages of the book were made an exhibition by curator, Carla Goldberg, at the Karpeles Museum in Newburgh, New York - Fall 2009.
(*) The book is available through Blurb, and through the official website of Amnesty USA.
Recently, I created a world-wide Diptych Project with many artists. The thrusrt of the idea was to create groups or 4 artist - each creating what they could imagine being the first piece of a diptych. They they passed to another artist. That artist responded to the work with the closing second work of the diptych. This artist then began their first piece of a new diptych and passed it along to another, different artist and the process was repeated. So far, we have 10 artists and 24 artworks - making one full dozen Diptych. There are other artist pairs coming in late to add to the ongoing tally. You can look the these results in an electronic exhibition now being shown at
www.ArtBrainstorming.com. This work comes from a private group of 29 world-wide artists working once from the original Private Artist Group, #artmesh (now defunct) - which was based in Berlin, Germany (which also spawn the international 'Micra Art' group). Please visit our ABS website:which also has opened three more shows titled; "Dichotomy," and, the 'May' & the, 'June' Shows. ABS has eight to ten shows annually, and is a great place to see a varity top-notch international artists... ArtBrainStorming.com allows you to follow the careers of dozens of my artist-friends from around the world!
I have studied with the following artists: John Paul Caponigro, Cushing, Maine via Santa Fe, NM, Sean Perry, Austin, TX, Keith Carter, Houston, TX, and, Nic Nicosia & Vernon Fisher, Denton, TX. Also, Joel Meyerowitz, Jerry Uelsman (seminars), and to conclude, Olivia Parker, Dan Fenton, and Susan Kay Grant - all workshopped in Dallas, TX.
Awards:
"Raymond Nasher's Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award," "John Dabney Murchison Trust Award," University of North Texas, "Best Editorial Photography," Donray Media Group, Arkansas, “Excellence in Photography,” Art Horizons, New York, “Outstanding Achievement in Photography,” The International Art Competition (I.A.C.), New York"
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Every human being, whether obscure or famous, makes a difference. Each individual has a place, a Path.
Brad Michael Moore's, ArtBrainStorming Group debuts... (See Here!)
"ArtBrainStorming" Goes Public on the WWW A new Fine Artist Group has evolved into the SiteWelder Family named, "ArtBrainStorming." Once rooted in the German private arts organization, #artmesh, http://www.ArtBrainStorming.com began as a small group of loosely knitted artists of fine art, from across the world, who then became a small group of their own. Their first project together - titled, "Diptych Duets," was reason enough to begin a public website so that our public friends could also share in it and our upcoming projects.
For the project - each artist created one half of a diptych and passed it on to another artist to complete. At the same time - a third artist also created a first half of a presumed diptych, and passed it on to another artist who's first work went to another artist. Point being, is that every diptych would be comprised of
unique artist combinations where everyone involved did both a first, and second half of a diptych - and no diptych contained the same two artist's works.
Exhibit Title: Corrections http://www.somarts.org/ Time: March 5-April 16, 2009 Opening Reception: March 5, 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm Place: SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
Curators: Harriette Lawler, Frank Ettenberg SomArts Gallery Director: Betsie Miller-Kusz
As artists, we often express our feelings and thoughts concerning injustices, abuses of power, good and evil, or just the way we would like the Earth to be. Even if it’s only our own little corner of the world or in our own heart and soul. Making corrections, righting wrongs. This exhibit is dedicated to that theme. An example of a “wrong” could be a polluted landscape, political or governmental abuses, ignorance and lies, war scene or a disaster. An example of a “right” (a correction) could represent or express any situation that has been corrected. The work can be of any style or media: representational, abstract or conceptual.
Corrections Exhibit The exhibit will also include visitor participation. Attendees can write down something that they feel needs correcting. Such as: abuses of any kind, overpopulation, corporate greed, political corruption, or whatever one wishes - global, national, local, or personal. They could then feed this Wrong into a paper shredder that would be set up in the gallery. (Something will be posted stating that only Wrongs that are NOT motivated by anger, hatred, bigotry/intolerance, or jealousy/envy should be fed into this shredder.)
We will also have a secondary shredder to receive petty or selfish concerns – just so people can get these things “off their chest” or just to get rid of the negative emotions that they are causing a person to harbor. At the end of the opening reception, our "court jester" will read aloud some of the Wrongs to be righted. In olden days, the king's court jester was the only one who could present truths in public before the king - without losing his head.
Summary
As artists, we can’t raise money the way musicians can, but we can raise awareness and focus. This one exhibit won't change the world, but at least we artists can stand together and hopefully get some attention paid to what we'd like to see corrected. The state of the world these days often seems so grim and hopeless, terribly out of balance, in desperate need of some "magic." Some Magic... and some Truth.
Artists Brad Michael Moore, Frank Ettenberg, Cassandra Gordon-Harris, Harriette Lawler, Midori McCabe, Pia B. Lehmann, Betty Bastai, Sarah Bindman, Ione Citrin, Donelli DiMaria, Virginia Erdie, Rodrigo Pierdrahita Escobar, Diane Hill, Bill Jackson, Sun-Young Jin, Elizabeth King, Rivka Kos, Terry Kruger, Linsay Locke, Christian Moeller, Neil Nieuwoudt, Marat Paransky, Jasmine Ronel, Billy Rose, Cecilia August Sand, David Trachtenberg, Gadi Veneziano, Solomon Walker, & Genevieve Williams
This exhibit is about International artist expressing their feelings and thoughts aboutjustice, freedom, abuse of power, good and evil, change, or just the way they would like the earth to be.
On October 2nd, 2008, the Mirca Art Group, an international coalition of professional artists, will release their landmark collaborative effort, a book entitled Freedom and Art, to the public. The book features 74 works of art, each accompanied by a short statement about the synergy of freedom and art in our world, and is being sold to raise funds in support of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a key political figure who has been under house arrest in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for the past 18 years over her bid for political freedom. Several artists who have Premiere Portfolios with absolutearts.com will be participating in the book: Leo Evans, Doug Kinsey, Don Murphy, Brad Michael Moore, Cassandra Gordon-Harris, Luise Andersen and Carla Goldberg, who compiled the information and created the publication.
The book will be released to the public initially through an event called “Set a Book Free” on Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday, October 2nd when all artists featured within the pages of the book will place a copy donated by Internet-based publishing site Blurb.com in a public location to raise interest. The project was born out of artmesh, a social media website that allows artists to network via forums and groups, similar to the way users interact on social mega-site Facebook.com. Swedish founder Stefan Tunedal created the Mirca Art Group as a private forum within artmesh that would focus on fostering art-orientated discussions in an open, tolerant atmosphere. The Mirca Art group eventually grew to include nearly 250 artists from six continents and over thirty countries. Aung San Suu Kyi and her battle for freedom – a passion of Tunedal’s – became a rallying cause for the group and is the inspiration for the book.
According to Carla Goldberg, US-based coordinator and senior editor for Freedom & Art, the book was meant to harness the energy and passion of the artists for Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi into an actionable strategy to aid in her release. On the effort to work with artists from around the world, Carla says, “The project has brought our group together in a whole new way. There has been a lot of wonderful back-and-forth on message boards and everyone has been willing to offer their individual talents where needed.” On the effort to assemble the work of the artists together, she says, "It has been like assembling a beautiful puzzle...each piece is unique and, in the end, everything has fit together to create a complete work of art." After its initial release to the public in October the book will be available for sale through the official website of Amnesty International and Amazon.com. All proceeds from the sale of the book Freedom & Art will be donated to Amnesty International to support efforts being made on behalf of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi's . A traveling exhibit featuring a selection of the art published in the book is also planned. It will open February 14, 2009, at the Mount Beacon Fine Arts Gallery in Beacon, NY. “I wanted to see what I can do from this safe studio in Stockholm where it would be impossible to even think of imprisoning an elected (official)," says Tunedal when asked about his passion for the plight Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi. “A woman like her should not be treated like this. She has the right to be free," adds Hungarian artist Krisztina Asztalos, writing from the other side of Europe. "Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts...are an inspiration for the many people throughout the world who are striving to attain democracy, human rights and ethnic conciliation." By working together in the spirit of global collaboration, these artists have become a united voice of hope and pierced places where freedom has failed with the liberating power of artistic expression.
There are 74 Mirca artists from 27 countries represented. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and USA.
Visit these artists' Portfolios to view more of their works:
"Freedom and Art: Artists Thoughts on Freedom" 2008-09-06 until 2008-12-31 Micra Art Group Skogas, , SE Sweden
Mirca Art Group based out of Skogås, Sweden is pleased to announce the publication of its first and long awaited book: "Freedom and Art". A collaborative work of 78 international artists, this book deals with the thoughts of the participants on Freedom along with their art, inspired by that gift. Group founder Stefan Tunedal, wanted this book to be a true act of freedom. Thus each participating artist will purchase the book and “set it free” in a public place! Four artists who will be participating in the book: Brad Michael Moore, Cassandra Gordon-Harris, Luise Andersen and Carla Goldberg, who compiled the information and created the publication. Amnesty International is sponsoring the book on its website, as proceeds from the sale will be donated to that organization, keeping true the intent of this collaboration. The book will be released for sale to the public on September 6, 2008- International Read a Book Day - and can be obtained from the bookstore at http://www.blurb.com
Freedom and Art 20.00 USD/ (approx. 12.60 Euro), plus taxes and shipping. 18 x 18 cm or 7 x 7 inches (ISBN number is: 978-91-977701-0-1)
(*) Addition Statement:
The Voice of Art in a Battle for Freedom represents International artists create book in support of key political figure. On October 2nd, 2008, the Mirca Art Group, an international coalition of professional artists, will release their landmark collaborative effort, a book entitled Freedom & Art, to the public. The book features 74 works of art, each accompanied by a short statement about the synergy of freedom and art in our world, and is being sold to raise funds in support of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a key political figure who has been under house arrest in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for the past 18 years over her bid for political freedom.
The book will be released to the public initially through an event called “Set a Book Free” on Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday, October 2nd when all artists featured within the pages of the book will place a copy donated by Internet-based publishing site Blurb.com in a public location to raise interest. The project was born out of artmesh, a social media website that allows artists to network via forums and groups, similar to the way users interact on social mega-site Facebook.com. Swedish founder Stefan Tunedal created the Mirca Art Group as a private forum within artmesh that would focus on fostering art-orientated discussions in an open, tolerant atmosphere. The Mirca Art group eventually grew to include nearly 250 artists from six continents and over thirty countries. Aung San Suu Kyi and her battle for freedom – a passion of Tunedal’s – became a rallying cause for the group and is the inspiration for the book.
According to Carla Goldberg, US-based coordinator and senior editor for Freedom & Art, the book was meant to harness the energy and passion of the artists for Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi into an actionable strategy to aid in her release. On the effort to work with artists from around the world, Carla says, “The project has brought our group together in a whole new way. There has been a lot of wonderful back-and-forth on message boards and everyone has been willing to offer their individual talents where needed.” On the effort to assemble the work of the artists together, she says, "It has been like assembling a beautiful puzzle...each piece is unique and, in the end, everything has fit together to create a complete work of art."
After its initial release to the public in October the book will be available for sale through the official website of Amnesty International and Amazon.com. All proceeds from the sale of the book Freedom & Art will be donated to Amnesty International to support efforts being made on behalf of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi's . A traveling exhibit featuring a selection of the art published in the book is also planned. It will open February 14, 2009, at the Mount Beacon Fine Arts Gallery in Beacon, NY. “I wanted to see what I can do from this safe studio in Stockholm where it would be impossible to even think of imprisoning an elected (official)," says Tunedal when asked about his passion for the plight Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi. “A woman like her should not be treated like this. She has the right to be free," adds Hungarian artist Krisztina Asztalos, writing from the other side of Europe. "Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts...are an inspiration for the many people throughout the world who are striving to attain democracy, human rights and ethnic conciliation." By working together in the spirit of global collaboration, these artists have become a united voice of hope and pierced places where freedom has failed with the liberating power of artistic expression.
There are 74 Mirca artists from 27 countries represented. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and USA.
"Sun Pictures to MegaPixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities (Pre-and Post-Modernist Photography)" 2007-09-29 until 2007-11-04 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center Brooklyn, NY, USA United States of America
absolutearts.com artists, Ellen Jantzen and Brad Michael Moore, will exhibit work beginning Saturday, September 29th and continuing through November 4th, 2007 in the exhibition titled: "Sun Pictures to MegaPixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities (Pre-and Post-Modernist Photography)," at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, 135 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11211. Opening is 4 to 6 pm September 29,2007 and, also, there will be a Costume Ball for the Opening Night's festivities - along with a special performance - "Photonic Sculptural Movement."
Statement by Joel Simpson, Curator
"Why put archaic process photography together with digital photography in the same show? It's because they each subvert one of the central tenants of photographic modernism: the transparency of the medium, and the truthfulness of the image. Archaic process photographers, with their chemical signatures, compromise transparency, while digital process photographers, as they elaborate the plausible impossibilities of their vision, abandon literal veracity.
"This makes archaic process photography as a kind of expressionism: the visibility of the chemical medium imparts an emotional perspective to the subject. Digital process photographers, on the other hand, drawing their inspiration from the imaginative freedom of the surrealists (as do commercial photographers, though in a more circumscribed way), use their freedom to create fantasy worlds, dreamscapes, as extravagant as those of Dali, Ernst, or Magritte. Both are represented masterfully and with great originality in the show." - Joel Simpson
Joel Simpson has been photographing since 1960 through careers in academia (teaching college English, French and Italian) and jazz piano. He produced the Dick Hyman Century of Jazz Piano CD-ROM in 1999, while living in New Orleans. After returning to the New York area in 2000, he began writing art criticism and showing his fine art photography in area galleries beginning in 2002. The Sun Pictures to Mega-Pixels show was conceived following the success of Brave Destiny a major exhibition of surrealist art at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in 2003. Simpson began working on the show in 2004. After many bureaucratic delays and by virtue of the persistence of the small community of photographic artists in the show, it is finally coming to fruition.
Joel Simpson was assisted by Curator Ellen Carey, Associate Professor of Photography, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.
Brad Michael Moore states about his 'MultiPlexing' work: My "MultiPlexing," represents a process of mirroring and unfolding an image to observe its hidden symmetrical qualities. I apply the process to a wide range of subjects, transforming simpler random forms them into new structures of balance and symmetry, revealing new meanings. Sometimes I destabilize the process via additive visual notions that slightly skew the image equilibrium. I began practicing the MultiPlexing art form piecemeal (by the panel) in the darkroom - a very laborious exercise. Digital process makes things much easier....
More history leading to this Exibition...
Archaic process photography-the early photographic methods developed in the 19th Century-and digital process photography-the largely filmless creation of real-seeming but often highly imaginative and impossible images through computer programs-may seem to be unlikely partners in an exhibition. The only thing they seem to have in common is their opposition to photographic modernism, what most people think of as photography's mainstream. As it became the standard photographic process in the 1920s and reigning virtually unchallenged into the 1960s (despite marginalized though prophetic experimentation in the hands of the surrealists), it was based on two fundamental principles that defined it as its own graphic medium, utterly different from all others: the (mechanical) capturing process was deemed to be transparent (excepting the absence of color in black and white photography), and the subject matter was understood to be actual, really out there. If something was a "photograph" (and not a drawing, painting or "artist's conception") then this testified to its authenticity.
Jerry Uelsmann (b. 1934), one of the contemporary pioneers in visionary photography, though working entirely in the chemical darkroom, points out in his interview with Paul Karabinis quoted on his page in this catalogue (and available in full at www.uelsmann.net), that thirty years ago this modernist conception of photography was so entrenched that his combinatory montages were dismissed (in New York) as not "true" photographs! Of course, I can still hear that old sense of the word photograph in my head (as in "Is it a drawing or is it a photograph?"). A photograph was something that represented true reality, full stop. A photographer was a technician responsible for the accurate conveyance of that reality through the photographic medium. This aesthetic concept hatched endless debates over whether photography was an art or merely a craft, a debate which finally began to fade only in the late Sixties when vintage photographs began commanding painting-like prices on the art market.
Very soon after that, in the 1970s, interest began to grow in the revival of the archaic methods of photographic capture. Please refer to Mark Osterman and France Scully-Osterman's excellent historical essay, on this subject, "Photohumanism," included on this disk. Generally speaking-since there are so many of these processes-the chemistry added elements of mood, nuance and randomness of design (especially along the edges), that offered strong aesthetic appeal. In addition, the works were unique, monoprints, so could be sold for much more than easily reproducible prints (see also Lyle Rexer's definitive study Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: the New Wave in Old Processes [New York: Abrams, 2002]). Twenty years later came the digital revolution, which placed literal image-making at the disposal of virtually everyone (video now, too), while photographic image manipulation became an artistic medium on a par with illustration and even fine art, as so many artists in this show illustrate. At this point the pairing of archaic process with digital process might make more sense: each subverts a basic tenet of photographic modernism. Archaic process photographers, with their chemical signatures, compromise transparency, while digital process photographers, as they elaborate the plausible impossibilities of their vision, abandon literal veracity.
And what emerged to take their place? Emotion and visionary imagination. In this sense, archaic process photography is a kind of photographic expressionism: the visibility of the chemical medium imparts an emotional perspective to the subject. Digital process photographers, on the other hand, drawing their inspiration from the imaginative freedom of the surrealists (as do commercial photographers, though in a more circumscribed way), use their freedom to create fantasy worlds, dreamscapes, as extravagant as those of Dalì, Ernst or Magritte. The more skillfully this is done the more believable it is. Just look at Steven Ochs' three-dimensional vertiginous interiors, or Steve Danzig's operatic scenes of Dark Eros, where naked grotesques cavort among ominous baroque edifices. Uelsmann, also in the show, led the way: we now accept the visual communication of a composite photograph that doesn't hide its artifice, such as in Steven Marc's highly symbolic studies in his Underground Railroad series. In addition to artist working within these clear categories, we have been fortunate to be able to show artists who present their images in novel ways, ways that deepen or extend the power of the images themselves. We have also included several installations that examine fundamental concepts such as seeing and time....
"Sun Pictures to Mega-Pixels" shows at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York 2007-09-29 until 2007-11-04.
AlphaSight.com / Brad Michael Moore / American Artist
On October 2nd, 2008, the Mirca Art Group, an international coalition of professional artists, will release their landmark collaborative effort, a book entitled Freedom and Art, to the public. The book features 74 works of art, each accompanied by a short statement about the synergy of freedom and art in our world, and is being sold to raise funds in support of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a key political figure who has been under house arrest in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for the past 18 years over her bid for political freedom. Several artists who have Premiere Portfolios with absolutearts.com will be participating in the book: Leo Evans, Doug Kinsey, Don Murphy, Brad Michael Moore, Cassandra Gordon-Harris, Luise Andersen and Carla Goldberg, who compiled the information and created the publication. 