'Landscapes and the calm water of returning home' Solo Exhibition by Curtis Tyler Moore
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The WKP Kennedy Gallery is thrilled to announce Curtis Tyler Moore as the recipient of the WKP Curatorial Mentorship for 2024! This initiative invites emerging artists without prior solo exhibition experience to submit proposals for their very own solo exhibition.
Moore's debut solo exhibition, "Landscapes and the Calm Waters of Returning Home," captures the transcendent beauty of the Northern landscape. The featured works invite viewers to experience their surroundings with a renewed sense of wonder, emphasizing the profound connection between nature, identity, and artistic expression through a contemporary lens.
A WORD FROM THE ARTIST:
"For all my life, art has been the medium through which I speak and am heard.
My journey of expression has taken me to many places, including a brief formal education in visual art at the Ottawa School of Art. The structured effort to tame and channel my voice felt stifling. Mistaking this as an ill omen of my artistic vocation, I began to travel, living in various places across North America.
Despite my nomadic lifestyle, I couldn't help but create, leaving my mark through murals and water-colours shared as closely-held secrets with friends.
In the summer of 2023, my travels brought me back to a tiny cottage on Trout Lake. I spent my days writing and observing the landscapes that had shaped my life as an individual and an artist. During this time, I felt a stirring within me that moved me to remain in the North and begin painting daily.
In light of earlier lessons, my practice is idiosyncratic: I never pre-plan my work, and with each project, I attempt bold new experiments. With the luxury of a home studio, I work expansively, embracing a challenging variety of novel media and methods. Through these changes, I strive to always leave a distinctive element in my work, making it recognizably my own." - Curtis Tyler Moore
