Andrew Moore: Whiskey Point and Other Tales

NEW YORK – New function by acclaimed photographer Andrew Moore will be on watch at Yancey Richardson from November 16, 2023, as a result of January 6, 2024. The exhibition, Whiskey Level and Other Tales, delves into the stunning scenes and moody vistas of the storied Hudson Valley of New York. Through his vividly colored, huge-scale photographs, Andrew Moore is identified for investigating the intersections of historic times in the U.S. and overseas, documenting the normal and created landscapes in destinations these Detroit, the American South, the Good Plains, New York Metropolis, Cuba, and Bosnia. Whiskey Place refers to a strip of land that juts out into the Hudson River in Ulster County where the bordering soil was at the time cleared for brick creation. Today it is aspect of a new park named after African American abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Reality who was born a slave in Ulster County in 1797.

From the mythological tales of the Indigenous Lenape and the Norse Viking sagas to the Hudson River School painters, the Hudson Valley location possesses a magical, nevertheless familiar attraction. Moore provides a layered tactic to images and storytelling by interweaving narrative with documentary and private experiences with historic and generational activities. The perform reveals different types of lineages, this sort of as how artists borrow from and remake art heritage.

In 2019, just after 39 several years of living in New York Town, Moore moved his studio to Kingston, NY, in the Hudson River Valley. When the Covid pandemic hit the following calendar year, Moore redoubled his initiatives to portray his speedy surroundings. Creating on the earlier precedent of the Hudson River College of portray, while finding out the geologic composition and environment particular to the location, he set out to examine the climate, tides, and landscapes of the Hudson Valley. It was far from a solitary pursuit as he satisfied hundreds of individuals as part of his impression-creating approach. He also left notes in mailboxes of house owners who welcomed his request to photograph their homes.

“I went back to nature and bit by bit my pandemic task grew to become about taking inventory, doing the job closer to household, exploring and returning to some thing more simple, nevertheless at the same time seeing the layers of history, the do the job of the Hudson River College painters, and the intersection of pictures and painting,” Moore notes. “This place is not truly a spot but an party, a area unfolding in time, narrating its very own tale. The pictures embrace how the organic entire world improvises on its personal themes, how the human globe is a lot more than a tiny wild, and how the two are inseparable.”

A touchstone for Moore was the pictures and paintings of his good-terrific-grandfather, the 19^th century American artist Alfred A. Hart (1816-1908). Hart was the official photographer for the western 50 % of the Central Pacific Railroad, the U.S.’s to start with transcontinental railroad. In addition to continuing his family’s visible pursuits, Moore was also drastically motivated by the paintings of Hudson River Faculty artists, such as Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886), Thomas Cole (1801- 1848), Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) and Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923).

“I gradually started out focusing on the vast views of the Hudson Valley in various seasons, reinterpreting the Valley utilizing new equipment. With the capacity of digital pictures to layer, merge and recompose illustrations or photos, I could integrate aspects of Hudson River Faculty portray, merging gentle and topics in an homage to the painters who would historically blend their sketches,” Moore points out.

In the course of one of his expeditions, Moore came throughout yet another photographer standing with a digital camera on a tripod in front of a superb look at of the Hudson River and Whiskey Point. The scene could not have been superior composed if Moore experienced directed it himself – a modern day-working day design of a Hudson River College portray straight in entrance of him. For Moore, that one particular moment summed up the work of generations of artists who have elegantly captured the layers of history and natural beauty in the region.

About Andrew Moore
American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957, Connecticut) is extensively acclaimed for his photographic collection, which report the result of time on the pure and created landscape. From 2001-2010, he was a traveling to lecturer at Princeton University. Considering the fact that 2004. he has taught in the MFA pictures method at the Faculty of Visible Arts in New York. Many notable establishments have held solo exhibitions of Moore’s do the job, together with the Queens Museum of Artwork, New York Akron Artwork Museum Grand Rapids Artwork Museum Colby Faculty Museum of Artwork, Waterville, Maine and the National Making Museum, Washington D.C. He has obtained grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Countrywide Endowment for the Humanities, New York Point out Council on the Arts, J.M. Kaplan Fund, and Cissy Patterson Foundation.

Moore’s get the job done is represented in numerous public collections in the United States and internationally, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York Whitney Museum of American Artwork, New York J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. San Francisco Museum of Modern-day Art Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork Yale University Artwork Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Art. Various monographs of his work have been printed: Inside Havana (2002, Chronicle) Russia (2005, Chronicle) Detroit Disassembled (2010, Damiani) Andrew Moore: Cuba (2012, Damiani) Filth Meridian (2015, Damiani) and Blue Alabama (2019, Damiani). Moore generated and photographed How to Attract a Bunny, a documentary feature on the artist Ray Johnson. The movie premiered at the 2002 Sundance Competition, where it received a Specific Jury prize. He life and works in Kingston, NY.

About Yancey Richardson
Founded in 1995, Yancey Richardson represents artists doing work in photography, film, and lens-dependent media. The existing system contains emerging photographers as very well as critically acknowledged, mid-career artists this sort of as John Divola, Mitch Epstein, Ori Gersht, Anthony Hernandez, Laura Letinsky, Andrew Moore, Zanele Muholi, Mickalene Thomas and Hellen van Meene. Moreover, the gallery has offered exhibitions of traditionally considerable figures this kind of as Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Ed Ruscha, August Sander, and Larry Sultan. Yancey Richardson gallery artists have been extensively gathered and exhibited by museums all over the world, together with the Museum of Modern day Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Artwork, J. Paul Getty Museum, Centre Pompidou, Nationwide Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Present day Art, The Tate Museum, and Stedelijk Museum. Gallery artists have been widely posted in artist monographs, outstanding art journals, and significant texts and opinions of the gallery’s exhibitions have appeared in many publications. Yancey Richardson is a member of the Art Dealers Association of The us (ADAA) and the Affiliation of Worldwide Images Artwork Dealers (AIPAD). Yancey Richardson is situated at 525 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011.