CPW: “Meet the Artist” with Andrew Moore

“Meet the Artist”
Andrew Moore
June 8, 2023
5:30 – 7:30 pm
474 Broadway, Kingston, NY

On Thursday, June 8, we welcome Andrew Moore to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Moore will be presenting how he approaches defining “place” through his previous projects, as well as a preview of Moore’s newest body of work from the Hudson River Valley. Copies of Moore’s books will be available to purchase. This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s Youtube Page just before the start time.

Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.

American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken over many years, which record the effect of time on the natural and built landscape. These series include work made in Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, the High Plains, the American South, and most recently, the Hudson Valley.

Moore’s photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Library of Congress amongst many other institutions. He has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014, and has as well been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the J M Kaplan Fund.

His most recent book, Blue Alabama, with a preface by Imani Perry and story by Madison Smartt Bell, was released in the fall of 2019. His previous work on the lands and people along the 100^th Meridian in the US, called Dirt Meridian, with a preface by Kent Haruf, was exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. An earlier book, the bestselling Detroit Disassembled, included an essay by the late Poet Laureate Philip Levine. An exhibition of the same title opened at the Akron Museum of Art before also traveling to the Queens Museum of Art, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.

Moore’s other books include Inside Havana (2002), Governors Island (2004) and Russia, Beyond Utopia (2005), and Cuba (2012). Additionally, his photographs have appeared in Art in America, Artnews, The Bitter Southerner, Harpers, National Geographic, New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME, Vogue, Wired, and World of Interiors.

Moore produced and photographed “How to Draw a Bunny,” a documentary feature film on Ray Johnson, who when he died in 1996 was called “New York’s most famous unknown artist”. The movie premiered at the 2002 Sundance Festival, where it won a Special Jury prize.

Moore was a lecturer on photography in the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University from 2001 to 2010. Presently he teaches a graduate seminar in the MFA Photography Video and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has been represented since 1994 by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in NYC where he will be showing his newest work from the Hudson Valley in the fall of 2023.