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Artist Statement:
Artist Note: "When it comes
right down to it - I'll make
no claims as to who I am, or
what my art represents. I
refer to it as art, but others
may have their own opinions. I
do what I do as a custom I’ve
parlayed into illustrated ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
PLEASE! Sign my guest book, at
least once, if you visit here
more than once - Thanks! - bmm
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I have exhibited, since the
late 1970's, in both Solo and
Group exhibitions in North
America and Mexico. I've most
recently exhibited in New
York, however, these days, I
mostly only ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Good comments come far and in
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for true content. There are
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through the trouble to immerse
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Collections:
Rex Hall, Durango, Colorado
USA
Robert Elliott, Toronto,
Province of Ontario, Canada
Robert Webber, Parker County,
Texas USA
Robin Dru Germany, Aurora,
Wise County, Texas USA
Romulo Romo, Miami, Florida,
USA
Ron & Wendy Ragland, College
Station, Texas USA
Roy & Charlotte Truitt, Tyler,
Smith County, Texas USA
Russell & Elisa Berger
Collection, ...
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Commissions:
The Howard Rachofsky
Collection, Dallas, Dallas
County, Texas USA
Nations Bank, Dallas, Dallas
County, Texas USA
Candler and Company, Dallas,
Dallas County, Texas USA...
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Brad Michael Moore Biography:
| Biographical information for Brad Michael Moore can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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55
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Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
0
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| Religion |
I have a spiritual path... |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
I broke my back, in a cycling accident, in the fall of 1989 - at the age of 37. I spent the next 12 weeks in a full-body brace, recalcifying my First Lumbar vertebrae - mostly on my sofa. I got around on my hands and knees. I had no health insurance (1 of nearly 10 million Americans then, and 1 of 50 plus million Americans now), so I had to sell the best of my small fine art glass, and photography collection, to pay off my medical bills. The image I miss the most - was my Arnold Newman portrait of Pablo Picasso, circa 1954 (hand on head). I had purchased it for $400.00, in 1984, from Arnold Newman, himself, on a visit to Dallas. Arnold Newman passed away this past June 5th, 2007 - the image is now valued at $40,000.00 or better (according to ArtNet)... For me it was priceless - Anyway, I digress... While spending so much time on my tush, recuperating from my accident, I decided to use my credit card collection and go to college the next spring. I'd walk 3 miles each morning to catch a shuttle bus for the 60 mile trip between Dallas and Denton. It was a tough first year. By my 4th semester, I purchased a used car and began making the commute by myself. This was an opportunity I had never had as a younger man... I began working professionally, in photography, at the age of 17 (I had to legally have my minorities removed, so I could enter into contracts in my home state of Texas - although I still had to wait until I was 21 to drink, though I registered to vote just as soon as I was 18). I already knew photography intimately, so, in my studies, I concentrated on sculpture as a major focus, and I minored in English. I fell 1 semester short of a Bachelor of Arts, from The School of Art at The University of North Texas in Denton... (*) Please see my Personal Biography below... P.S. I have no real hobbies... My interests are to be better motivated in creating the art of my imagination, both from day and night dreams, and also, from the art ponds of creation carried by our human spirit and mother nature struggling in dealing with tasks of survival. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Kinetic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Kinetic Art - (1925 - 1965)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
M.C. Esher
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Many Alexander Calder Mobiles...
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
The active or acted work of others inspired in their own milieu. Sometimes, I just get inspired by the works of others in such a way that their work - usually from the performance arts, turns in my brain until I come up with some kind of visual or written output that pays homage to the excitement that fills my inspiration. You gotta be filled with art to spill art out in some meaningful way... |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I'm not sure. As far back as memory serves me, I have always been in some act of expressing myself. I remember once (as a budding 4-year-old) running through my backyard nude and singing a song about the new spring while my mother's house-keeper, Essie Maye, was chasing me with my trousers... I know I was nearly a full-term baby at childbirth - the only child of my mother who was. Maybe it was all the color, sound, and light, that greeted me on my original Birthday... |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born: Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA, July 2, 1952.
During the Texas International Peace (Pop) Festival (in 1969's Summer of Love), I ran into my neighbor, Dallas Cowboy Quarterback, Don Meredith. Someone in his company had a very professional looking camera. The next week, I asked my mother & Step-father, Roy Truitt, for a professional camera for my birthday. My last request had been for a Chevy SS 396. They thought this request for a camera was a lot more reasonable - and they purchased me a Canon FT. I started my professional photography career in Dallas, in 1971, spending 4 years working with Architectural Photographer, Douglas E. Tomlinson, nine years my senior (now deceased). A fine credit to Douglas would be his 'Same Titled' Book & Exhibition, 'Dallas: From the Ground Up.' The book illustrated what old architecture Dallas had – and Doug's images preserved precious parts of that history that were soon to fall to the developers of a booming metropolitan area. The book (including text by Dallas writer, David Dillon) was published to coincide with the premier of his exhibition at, 'The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts,' - now renamed the Dallas Museum of Art (which was moved from Fair Park to the northwest side of Downtown Dallas)...
I first began photographing at about the age of 5 or 6. A tree blooming in early spring was my first meaningful subject - captured in black and white in 1957. I eventually became a, ‘Color Specialist,’ when my 1st photographer partner, Doug Tomlinson, turned out to be Color Blind. Doug helped me to develop my color senses, and technical expertise, as he had developed his own senses of the Black & White photography medium - by becoming a master of Ansel Adam's Zone System. For me, it was more trial and error, for the field of color artists, and the history of the color medium, were both very shallow in 1972. Only 12 years earlier, President John F. Kennedy's Administration was the first in American History to use color film to record the historic events of his tenure. That was a fact I noticed in my youth, and JFK's courage rubbed off on me to push at an art form that was mostly unpopular, and uncollected, at the time. I had settled on color film, and C-Type Prints versus more stable chrome films, and additive printing processes. My reasons were simple – I let my eyes be my judge… I was always drawn to tonality and pastels. After many childhood family trips through New Mexico, the power of what I call, 'Essence Colors,' had forever augmented my perceptions. As soon as I pulled my first color print, around the beginning of 1972, finding out the 'essence colors' mixed into the particles and atmosphere upon the landscape has always kept me striving to sharpen my skills. I began my serious wildlife and landscape work in the mid-1970's; moving into the fine art of imagery in the mid-1980's, and then diving into sculpture in the early 1990's. I explored editorial documentary photography during the late 1990's. I self-taught, via PhotoShop, my art into, 'Digital Renderings,' in the early 2000's. Presently, I’m exploring fluid light constructions – still using my tried and true, 'trial and error methodology.'
Since 1993, I have lived, and worked, on a small 50 acre farm 75 miles north, and west, of downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
I've exhibited in United States and Mexico, beginning in the late 1970's.
I have studied with the following artists: John Paul Caponigro, Cushing, Maine via Santa Fe, NM, Sean Perry, Austin, TX, Keith Carter, Houston, TX, and, Nic Nicosia & Vernon Fisher, Denton, TX. Also, Joel Meyerowitz, Jerry Uelsman, Susan Kay Grant, and Olivia Parker - all workshopped in Dallas TX.
(*) To Google me - use bradmichaelmoore - no spaces, or you'll get Brad Pitt's & Michael Moore's hits with mine - about 1,000,000 of them...
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