Dennis Hollingsworth

Justin Moore at Cirrus This Saturday

Justin opens this weekend at Cirrus:

J U S T I N ?M O O R E:
Time Machines and Paranoid Landscapes
April 7 through May 26, 2007
Opening Reception April 7 - 5:00 to 7:00 pm
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Cirrus Gallery is pleased to present Justin Moore?s Time Machines and Paranoid Landscapes.
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Moore continues to explore monumental landscape and the relationship between nature, technology, and human experience.? His work allegorizes aesthetic experience through visceral and disorienting representations of nature and architecture.
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In this exhibition, the viewer is drawn into the space by the optical gravitation of a pulverized moon, while a video projection invokes the mechanized gaze of the Mars Rover.
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Delicately rendered ink wash drawings represent ecological cataclysms that combine the vocabulary of monumental Chinese landscape painting with the surrealists? paranoid-critical method.
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Inspired by the Japanese kaijin, or humanoid monsters, a series of paintings depict ecological monstrosities on a human scale through a time-sensitive process of pouring and removing oil paint from a smooth surface, while skyscrapers struggle with the nature of their verticality in ten foot-tall ink drawings.
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In addition to Cirrus Gallery, Justin Moore has exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), Art Chicago Project Space, Mario?s Furniture (Los Angeles), Scope Miami, Scope New York, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Western Project (Los Angeles), and Antai Gallery (Los Angeles).? He lives and works in Los Angeles.