"Bringing the Museum to You"

By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece Exhibitions of works by American contemporary Impressionist painter Larry Moore (born 1957 in Columbus, Ohio).

 

An award-filled 25-year illustration career has led to a highly-successful painting career for Larry Moore. After painting outdoors for the last 25 years, he has found the en plein air art form the most-challenging and rewarding form of all. But whether painting in his studio or outdoors, Larry's goal is to achieve honesty in his work, his artwork representing a window to a new place for the viewer--a place of rest.
 

Larry’s career as an artist started when he was 12 with airbrushing t-shirts, wall murals and vans during his teens in Cocoa Beach, Fl. Majoring in Graphic Design at University of Florida, his education was geared towards design, drawing and art history. There were no painting classes offered. Upon graduation in 1979 a short stint in advertising led to a long run as an independent graphic designer and illustrator.

 

With no training in painting other than his experiences with an airbrush, he began to experiment with gouache, watercolor, pen and ink, acrylic and pastel. When asked why, Larry states “In one college class (pre-desktop) we were required to experiment with all wet and dry media on a huge variety of surfaces to see how the mediums differ from one another, that really stuck with me.”

During his time as an illustrator of 35 years, the experimentation continued with alkyds, oil, amberlith, woodcut, silkscreen and house paints. As for plein air painting, it was a workshop with Scott Christensen in the ‘90s that lit his fire in that genre, starting a life-long friendship and sharing of ideas with this great artist.

His influences are very broad starting with the illustrators of the Golden Age; Howard Pyle, Dean Cornwell, NC Wyeth to the contemporary illustrators he came to know as a member of the Society of Illustrators; Gary Kelley, Marshal Arisman, Brad Holland and Malcolm Leipke. In addition he is an ardent student of mid-20th century contemporary masters of realism and abstraction; Richard Deibenkorn, Edward Hopper and a host of living masters like Quang Ho, Scott Christensen, Len Chmeil. As for the dead ones, Larry says that Sorolla and Sargent were pretty good, too.

 

Larry's recent painting endeavors have led him to a "more-abstracted version of reality," wherein he is playing more with edge, color and value and worrying less about getting a painting exactly right realistically and thinking more about moving the eye through the painting and creating exciting paint and composition combinations.