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Gerald C. Moore - A featured artist at the Lanning Gallery [Sedona Arizona]
 

"Though I love the vast canyons, I can find my subjects on expressway medians and ditch beds. I often do a fragment of the landscape to represent the whole."
 

"Lakescape #1"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
32" x 28"
Therein lays the genius of this singular artist. Moore sees like no one else and he recreates detail like no one else. With you-are-there precision he draws viewers in.
 
Expressive Realism is perhaps the term that best describes the artist's style: not quite pointillism, nor the realism of a photograph, but rather an attention to every detail that informs an interpretation of a scene, including the emotion of the viewer. "I am after the aesthetic essence of things found outdoors," Moore explains, "which make my paintings close to nature, but not copies of nature."

"Snow Cloud"
 Acrylic on Linen Painting
21" x 23"
 

His paintings are, more than anything, about how light plays on surfaces to create specific textures. "I use great detail on the surfaces because major characteristics of the landscape are its intricacy, abundance, and chaos," Moore says; these are facets that can be overlooked by other artists in the name of simplicity. For Moore, each of his paintings bear out his belief that nature's beauty most often is not simple.

 

"I work opposite the Oriental painting philosophy that 'less is more.' 'More' is the engine of my work; 'more' is more."
 
Gerald Moore holds BSE and MA degrees and two-year post-Masters work from Central Michigan University. From September 1962 through June 1985 he headed the Saginaw High School Art Department. Retirement from his teaching career in 1985 allowed Moore to completely commit to painting. Since 1960, he has been accepted extensively into regional and national juried art shows, winning numerous awards, including a one-man show award in summer 2004 at the Dow Chemical Company Center for the Arts; in 2009, Moore won Best in Show at the GFAC All Media Member Artists Exhibition, judged by the Curator for the Department of American Art at The Detroit Institute for Art. Moore's paintings are held in prominent corporate and private collections across the country.
 

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"Beside the Road, Sedona Spring"
Oil on Linen Painting
30" x 40"

"Cardinal Flowers, Lace and Grass"
 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
30" x 24"
 

"Springtime Barrel"
 Acrylic on Linen Painting
35" x 29"
 
 

 

"Fall Patterns" - Landscape Art by Gerald C Moore

"Fall Patterns"
Oil on Linen Painting
36" x 40"

"Edge of the Forest"
Oil on Linen Painting
27" x 23"
 

 

 

"October Prelude" - Landscape Oil Painting by Gerald C Moore

"October Prelude"
Oil on Linen Painting
36" x 32"

"By the River"
Acrylic on Paper Painting
39" x 32"
 

"Summer Field Study"
Oil on Linen Painting
24" x 34"
 

Artist's prices beginning at $2,400.

"Leaves and Snow"
Oil on Linen Painting
50" x 46"
 

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