Elizabeth Moore-Artistic Expressions: Dear John Letters: Still Reclusive

ABOUT ME

Elizabeth R. Moore, Mixed Media Artist 

Winter address:
16245 West Boulder Drive Surprise, AZ 85374 
Summer Address:
24 Fairway Drive Grantham, NH 03754
Blog: elizabethrandallmoore.blogspot.com
Email: elizabethrmoore@cox.net

After a twenty year career as an Organization Development and Training consultant, College Professor, and Human Resource Manager, I retired and took up painting. Having worked on the left side of my brain for most of my adult life, I did a dramatic about face and switched to the right side of my brain. I became an artist!
The concept of "culture" has always intrigued me. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on culture creation in small, start-up companies. My research focused on the symbols, signs, words, behaviors, belief systems, values, and norms that contribute to the development of a company's culture.

Not surprisingly, once I began my second career as an artist, I was drawn to other cultures, both ancient and distant. Consequently, I enjoy creating ethnographic works of art in which text and other cultural symbols are embedded in my visual compositions in an effort to make meaning and allow each piece to speak a language all it’s own.

I am a mixed media artist. My work is typically multi-layered with collaged elements, heavily textured, brightly colored, and non-representational. Most of my paintings include hidden signs, symbols, and words that reflect an inner dialogue about the piece that is rarely evident at first glance. These hidden elements represent cultural artifacts, artistically expressed.

Professional Arts Organizations:
Alliance for the Visual Arts (AVA)
Arizona Art Association (Juried Member)

Arizona Artists’ Guild (Juried Member)
National Watercolor Society
National Collage Society
Newport Library Arts Center

New Hampshire Artists Association (Juried Member)

 Vanguard Artists (Juried Member)
West Valley Arts Council
WHAM Community Arts Organization

Exhibitions:

“Celebration of Artists” Peoria Arts Commission Juried Art Exhibits (2009-2018)
Quechee Inn’s Annual Fall Art Exhibits (2010-2014)
Salubre Trattoria: Guest Artist Solo Show (July 2010)

AVA Gallery and Art Center Spring Juried Art Exhibits (2010-2013)

New London Hospital’s Art Exhibits (2010 and 2013)
Newport Library Arts Center Juried Art Exhibits (2010-2019)

Arizona Artists‘ Guild ASU Gammage Juried Art Exhibit (February 2012)
Church of the Beatitudes Solo Exhibition (April 2012)
Sunapee Arts and Crafts Fair (August 2012)
Arizona State House Exhibition (2013-2014)

Birt’s Bistro Solo Exhibition (December-February, 2013)

Beatitudes Campus Town Plaza Two Artist Exhibit (January -March 2014)
Peoria Library “Solo Exhibit” (November, 2015)
Glendale Arts Council’s 47th -53nd Fine Arts Competitions (2010-2019)
West Valley Arts Council’s Juried Exhibits (2012-2019)

Southwestern Invitational Exhibit of Contemporary Art (2015)
WHAM’s Recycled Art Exhibition (2016 and 2017)
National Watercolor Society Member Exhibition (2017)
Arizona Artists’ Association Juried “Interpretations” Exhibit (2016-2017)
Vanguard Artists Juried “Forty Years of Excellence” Exhibit (2017)

El Dorado of Sun City Art Gallery (2017)
Holland Gallery (2017-2019)
Selections Exhibit (2018) at Newport
AAG Statewide Open Exhibit (2018) at West Valley Arts HQ
WHAM's "Color, Rhythm, and Pattern Dynamics" exhibit, January 3-30th, 2019.
Arizona Artists Guild Statewide Open Juried Exhibition. Exhibition dates were May 10 - June 20, 2019.
Herberger Theater/Art Gallery Fall 2019 Exhibition in Phoenix AZ. The theme of this show was "Proudly I Stand."
AVA's 2019 Summer Juried Exhibition "Messages for the Future." Alan Chong, Director and CEO at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH, was the juror. Opening Reception was Friday, July 12, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Center for the Arts Summer 2019 Exibit at the Livery in Sunapee, NH. Opening Reception was held August 3 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm.

Awards and Recognition:

“Second Place” in Mixed Media awarded in Peoria’s Celebration of Artists Exhibit (2009)

“Best in Show” awarded in West Valley Arts Association’s “Honoring Diverse Cultures” exhibit (February 2012)

“Second Place” in Mixed Media awarded in the Glendale Arts Council’s Juried Art Exhib- it (2013)

“Artist of the Month” awarded by the Arizona Artist’s Guild (January 2013)
“First Place” in Mixed Media awarded in Peoria Celebration of Artists Exhibit (2014) Honorable Mention in Wham’s “Recycle Art” exhibit (2015)
“First Place” in Acrylic awarded at Glendale Arts Council’s exhibit (2015)
“First Place” in Acrylic awarded at WHAM’s “I’m Feeling Blue” exhibit (2016)
“First Place” in Acrylic awarded at Wham’s “Seasons” exhibit (2016)
“Honorable Mention” in Glendale Arts Council’s Statewide Exhibit (2017)
“Selections Winner” in Newport Library Arts Center’s annual juried competition (2017)
Selected as Juror for Wham's Recycled Art Exhibit held in April 2018
Selected as a 2018 "Artist in Residence" for one month at the Mas els Igols artist residency just outside of Barcelona, Spain.

Gallery Representation:

CourtyardGallery (Wenden,AZ)
Oodles Gallery in White River Junction, VT

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Dear John Letters: Still Reclusive

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