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The Lyons Wier Gallery to Present Jazz-minh Moore Solo Show

artwork: Jazz-minh Moore - "My Pantheon", 2011 Acrylic on birch panel 121.9 x 91.4 cm. - Courtesy Lyons Wier Gallery, NY


New York City.- Lyons Wier Gallery is pleased to present “Is That All There Is”, its second solo exhibition with Jazz-minh Moore, on view at the gallery from January 5th through January 28th. There will be an artist’s reception on Thursday January 5th from 6 – 8 pm. Moore’s new series of paintings features her sister, Asia Kindred, amidst the ruins of a deteriorating cabin. The primarily naturalistic pallet is infused with distortion and bright color, causing the compositions to hover between physical and psychological space.  The cabin depicted was the first structure built on the land where the artist was born, deep in the Oregon woods. Over the years, Moore has watched the dilapidated structure fall into a nest-like geometry that she finds beautiful. The external post and lintel structure has given way to the kind of forgotten, mythical space that a teen might build her fort in; a space wherein secrets can be told and tasted, where the patchy, uneven ground is both soft and solid. It is within this context that Asia is found squatting, or absentmindedly doodling on the fallen boards with a sharp stick.