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Painter. Born in Ann Arbor, MI on Jan. 21, 1954. After receiving a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, William traveled to Arizona as an artist primarily working in watercolors. Moore’s artistic eye was generally focused on desert landscapes and figure studies of Mexican/Mexican Americans living along the Nogales, AZ, border. After success in various shows and competitions Moore met and married an architect from Bogotá, Colombia. William moved to Bogotá and began photographing resource material of the local people living in the central part of the city. These people were generally either of the working class or homeless. Moore’s work was recognized by the El Tiempo Newspaper as a look at Colombian city dwellers from the perspective of a North American. After living in Bogotá for several years, William decided to move to Los Angeles, CA, and continued his work in watercolor. The paintings evolved during that period and began to incorporate acrylic backgrounds with figures rendered in watercolor. Moore continued to be active in exhibitions and developed a successful artist blog to reach a wider international audience. Currently William resides in Chicago after a 30 year adventure outside of the State of Illinois. His admiration for the Chicago Imagist movement of the late 60s and its influence on him has provided a source of high energy and inspiration throughout the 30 years. William has always recognized and prized his Chicago roots and painting heroes. |
| About the Artist | |
I have lived many years in Bogota, Colombia and have found the painting possibilities quite endless. The people who live near the center of the city are fascinating subjects and are sometimes willing to be part of my artistic efforts. Now residing in Chicago, my brushes currently paint images inspired by this energetic environment. |
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Miss Penny
2008 |
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| Outside now in the late afternoon atmosphere a smell wafts, a smell impregnated with oven-flamed roasted meat and carbon monoxide. Invisible blue black smoke makes it way down the boulevard as I make my way over to the smiling lady, the lady that serves it up so graciously - that which was sought..
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Pan Dulce
2008 |
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| Telling the truth was his talent, the surgeon’s scalpel was dull by comparison, the sun a red dwarf. Those in range had to hear him, fear him, and cast their gaze to the ground. How was it this Mercury had instead the power of the Wisdom Eye, the Prism? The fact he was crazy made the riddle more mysterious, an irritation that would cling and not permit peace of mind nor rest. In his ranting, in the wild gesticulating hand, in the spittle that flew from the corners of his open jaw, the words poured out like a viscous foam etching clean the filth in the street, the clabber in the mind. The authorities would only laugh at this one. How silly is this man said their eyes.. but beware you men of ordinary being… do not repeat his words.. the axe will not permit it. |
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Grin
2008 |
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| Light's off and somebody is home.
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Poot Tooty
2008 |
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| Dacron, rayon, polyester, nylon, spandex, Cotton! Oh cotton Lord and Lordess of all garments here and there. Keep your wrinkle-free false fibers far from my fur covered flesh. 100 percent cotton is the Grail, the hallmark of true comfort and health – physical and material ............ Wool Wool you Heaven sent gift of angels, material of the crusted Scot, tangled tartan whose plaid is blood, and the coin of his realm. Kilts and trews, clansmen and their peat bogged thews, young dandies and their oxen blood shoes, none with woolen under garb now - for fearing of The Bruce's contrary views; he's a real linen man.
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Little Red Riding Coat
2008 |
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| 2 blocks down from the Botero Museum, Bogota, I spot this fellow in the red woman's full-length coat. I remembered him from a previous visit and he appears in one of the watercolors from a couple of months ago. He looked in better shape then than at this time. The body can take only so much abuse or neglect before things start going awry like mental health and physical appearance. When an acquaintance of his showed up he too wanted to be part of the photographic process. They cavorted and for a short time seemed to forget their real situation. I also seemed to forget my real situation. His image is a powerful one... and if one can shift gears for a moment something else emerges and a different understanding becomes possible.
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Helmut
2008 |
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| Silt settling silently on my sill, today as it did the day before, and as it will for days to come and so on. |
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He lied in his sleep
2009 |
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| It snuck into bed with him like a shadow against midnight. His dream was ill defined as he wandered through the damp blue fog. In the distance amber colored light issued from the second story bank of windows of the garment factory where he once punched the clock. He heard footsteps behind him with a split second delayed echo. Whispering voices repeating a rhyme mantra like came from the right, near or perhaps behind the trash bins and merged with the fog, with the darkness. A chain link fence could be made out just ahead and the barbwire on top appeared to be electrified. Blue sparks jumped off the rusty tines sporadically while the current crackled and hummed its deadly song. Farther down the fence a cone of light shone down from a goose neck lamp revealing a rusted metal sign about 12 inches high and 20 across. The stenciled black letters made it perfectly clear: “CURFEW FOR SMALL MAMMALS IN EFFECT.” As he slowly looked away from the writing he felt coarse and calloused skin on large fingers gently holding his right hand. |
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| Education and biography | |
| MA Education U of Michigan BFA Art Institute Chicago Exhibitions in Bogota, Sedona, AZ, Los Angeles. |
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| Future shows | |
| Los Angeles Small Works show Bare Walls, Chicago |
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| Website: williamkmoore.blogspot.com/ | |
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