Exhibits/Writings
2023 Garrison Art Center, Balter Gallery April 8-May 7. This Happened.
2022 Hudson Open Studio, Flow Chart Foundation, 348 Warren St Hudson (October 8,9)
2022 Time & Space Limited, Hudson NY. June 26-Aug 14. Life is Long Life is Short
2020-2021 Group Exhibition, Re Institute, Millerton NY. Together in Isolation (June 2020—Fall 2021). Assemblages in clear boxes buried at ground level.
Electronic Group Exhibition. Arte4a Hudson NY. Protest Art Show
2019 Solo exhibition: This Happened , Khashoggi’s Last Five, and other new work. Leonardo Sideri Gallery 556 State St Hudson, Oct 26-November 30
WGXC, Hudson NY, artist interview hosted by Arte4a / Pauline DeCarmo and George Spencer, 4 pm Oct 2 2019 (available in WGXC archive.)
Group show: Protest Art. Time & Space Limited Hudson NY. Curated by arte4a, Aug 31 2019--Sept 30 2019
The RE Institute, Millerton NY. This Happened July—August 2019
Cloud Appreciation Society of Britain : Website Gallery August 2019, ongoing. https://cloudappreciationsociety.org. Click on clouds in art.
Berkshire Art Museum North Adams Massachusetts. Group Show "Not just a another pretty picture", June 27-October 2019, curated by Eric Rudd
Group show, Kimboseong Art Center, Korean Fine Arts Association International Exchange Exhibition, Seoul Korea, 5/2019
Kate Oh Gallery Korea Branch, Damyang County, S. Korea, group show January 2019
Art School of Columbia County (ASCC) “Reimagining Region”. Juried exhibition April 6-May 9 2019, curated by Kate Menconeri.
2018
Kate Oh Gallery, Manhattan NY. Solo exhibition: This Happened. November 12-25
The Re Institute, Millerton NY. Studies from "Wake Up White Man" April-May.
2016
The Re Institute, Millerton NY. "Everything that is alive wants to be alive.”Sept-Oct.
2015—1990 Medical practice.
1989 Whitney Museum of 1989 Biennial Exhibition,Whitney Museum of American Art
Alternative Museum, New York. "The New Music Series" (collaboration with composer Neil Rolnick)
1985
Whitney Museum of American Art 1985 Biennial Exhibition
10 artists at 10 years, Yale University School of Art, New Haven
1983
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1983 Biennial Exhibition "Luck in Loose Plaster" and "Gawrsh I Didn’t Know You Was a Lady!" toured throughout the USA and internationally with the American Federation of the Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch NY. The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture.
1981 Drawing Center, New York, New Perspectives
1980 White Columns NY
Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Kentucky
10th Athens Ohio International Film Festival.
1979 112 Workshop NY
Center for Art Tapes, Halifax Nova Scotia Mannheim Filmwoche (West Germany)
Collective for Living Cinema, NY: Stretching the Limits Animated Films
Film Forum NY: The Lives of Animators
1978 Drawing Center, NY: Drawings from Animated Films 1914 – present
The Queens Museum Flushing NY: Animators on Animation (performance)
1973 Yale University. The Influence of Dada on Country Music. Performance and lecture April 1973, noted in NY Times.. See section on Earlier Drawings and Miscellany
Writing/Texts
1/06/22. The Insurrection One Year Later. Broadcast zoom discussion presented by Time Space Limited, the 1/6/21 insurrection from an artist’s point-of-view.Available in the TSL archive.
Artist’s blog https://www.sandymooreartist.com/neck-of-the-woods
Catalog: Korean Fine Arts Association International Exchange Exhibition Seoul New York May 2019 p.48
Art Talk 4/28 2019, ASCC, Ghent NY. “Region, Abstracted”
Eric Rudd, Berkshire Art Museum Catalog, 2019. Not Just Another Pretty Picture
Benjamin Cassidy, Berkshire Eagle Aug 2019. "Berkshire Art Museum: dark, yet important, themes in exhibits" https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/berkshire-art-museum-dark-yet-important-themes-in-exhibits
(following, medical papers, non-inclusive)
Moore S, Schweitzer,M, Murphey M, Kransdorf M. 1387-93. Can sarcoidosis and metastatic bone lesions be reliably differentiated on routine MRI? AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2012 Jun; 198 (6):1387-93.
Moore S, Teirstein A, Golimbu, C. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Sarcoidosis Patients with Musculoskeletal Symptoms.AJR 2005; 185 (1): 154-159.
Moore SL, Teirstein A.. Musculoskeletal Sarcoidosis: Spectrum of Appearances at Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Radiographics, 2003; 23:1389-1399.
Moore SL, Katsivas, T. Updated Imaging of Musculoskeletal Manifestations of HIV/Aids, in Imaging of the Musculoskeletal System (1st Ed) Pope T et al, eds., Elsevier, 2013-14
Moore SL, Updated Neuropathic Arthropathy, in Imaging of the Musculoskeletal System (1st Ed) Pope T et al, eds., Elsevier 2013-14. (print and web publication)
Moore, S. May 2010. Diagnostic imaging: Musculoskeletal:Non-traumatic Disease. Amersys books. BJ Manaster, editor.
—Marrow Imaging (4 chapters) Diffuse Marrow Disorders, Focal Marrow Disorders, Red marrow regeneration, recruitment and depletion, Normal Marrow—Distribution and development,
—Musculoskeletal sarcoidosis (4 chapters): Osseous sarcoidosis, Soft tissue lesions in sarcoidosis, Articular Involvement in Sarcoidosis, Muscle Lesions in sarcoidosis
Moore, S. Lyme Arthritis, Radiology Series: Cases. Ed. J. Teranzideh. McGraw Hill, 2008
Moore S. Bone Sarcoidosis, in Radiology Series: Cases. Ed. J. Teranzideh. McGraw Hill, 2008
Moore, SL. Sarcoidosis, Musculoskeletal System. Encyclopedic Reference of Imaging. Ed. A. L. Baert, Springer 2005.
Moore SL, Rafii M. Osteoarticular Tuberculosis. Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology, Advanced Imaging of Arthritis. Karasack D. and Schweitzer, M eds. Vol 7, (2) 2003:143-153.
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1989 Whitney Biennial Exhibition Catalog. Richard Armstrong, John Hanhardt, Richard Marshall, Lise Phillips, eds. Whitney Museum of Art in association with W.W.Norton & Co, NY.
1985 Whitney Biennial Exhibition Catalog. Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
1983 Whitney Biennial Exhibition Catalog. Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
P. Adams Sitney,. “Deep into the Formalist Schism," The Village Voice, April 12, 1983, pp. 55, 94.
Moore, Sandy. Robert Breer, Filmmakers Filming, vol.7 St Paul Film in the Cities & Minneapolis Walker Art Center, 1980.
Moore, Sandy. Some Advice and Some Commiseration for the Independent Animation Artist. University Film Study Center Newsletter, 8 (Feb. 1980, p2).
Louis Marcorelles on The Lives of Firecrackers,. Le Monde, Oct 7 1979, p. 20.
Swimming in Vitreous Humor
After college I learned filmmaking and made experimental films composed of objects, drawings and paintings. I taught at Cooper Union and showed my films around. Simultaneously I was drawn to science, studied medicine, and went on to practice as a physician from 1990-2015. Medical imaging astonished me to my marrow.
The privilege of being a physician allowed me to directly witness striking mysteries. Nevertheless, medicine dashed all time for reverie and making art.
In 2015 I returned full circle to working as an artist. Currently I paint non-narrative, storyboard-like sequences, with call-and-response between images across time and space.
In deep sleep, making filming once again circles under my brain, searching for light,.
LIFE IS LONG LIFE IS SHORT
Questions I ask— what makes up a human life, and is there being before and after that life?
Large minds have long questioned the continuity of thought and perception beyond the boundaries of life. Artists illuminate their answers--for example, depicting the angels and loved ones somewhere up above, eternal pain somewhere down below.
On the other hand in some Eastern thought, there is the idea that being may undergo innumerable cycles of rebirth, or many forms of transmigration. Buddha Shakyamuni is said to have recounted @ 554 prior existences (Jataka tales).
Conceptions of both heaven and reincarnation may initially seem comforting, but there are hitches. Measurement of life lived--i.e. judgement or karma--may determine what comes ahead. Waiting for a final judgement, or cycling through life-upon-life might be exhausting. The thought of clumsy progress through Bardo (the state between death and rebirth) is terrifying. And going along with any of these idea systems requires belief.
In modern life belief can be a sticking point. Life might just stop cold, in obliteration. That may be absurd, but also could be true. On the brighter side, a lovely idea has been recently advanced of an afterlife consisting of an ecstatic return to atoms/waves/cosmic energy. Whee?
And of course, belief in an afterlife can be manipulated for the management of people’s behavior.
During the duration of this series (2020-2022), like many, I felt compelled to suspend disbelief in my own immortality.
And for purposes of this work, I also suspended disbelief in the idea that life recycles.
I have not attempted to paint-at the Karmic principle of cause and effect, but I understand that in some schools of thought, this is essential to understanding reincarnation. I painted life(s) with as much phenomenological accuracy as I was able, with occasional reference to recalled or reconstructed experiences like learning words. I have tried to avoid autobiographical references to particular events, and in no way do I intend to proselytize, nor to make sense. Rather, this is meant as a gedanken-experiment, for your contemplation.
LIFE IS LONG LIFE IS SHORT with REFERENCES. For those interested, further discussion, below, of Women’s Work and Men’s Work.
These images are painted with water soluble pigment on cold pressed paper mounted on board; most measure 32 x 23”, or 24 x 18”.
Intermission (Bardo)
1 FLOTATION DEVICE 2 BREATHE
3 SEE? Paired eye globes, optic nerves, decussation at the optic chiasm, optical tracts, and the world as projected in the optic cortex.
4 PLAY: Girl at Play
5 WORDS:
--James Joyce, Portrait of an Artist, as a Young Man: Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes,
--TS Eliot, Burnt Norton: Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children, hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
--Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it?
6 SEX (menarche, images A and B ). Or, the aftermath of a desperate home abortion.
7 WORK: Felix, hunting with an eye-beam, drawing given to me by Otto Messmer.
8 LIBERATION: Felix (or Toody) with cream 9 PENULTIMATE: On a ledge
Neither realm (Bardo)
1 FLOTATION DEVICES. 2 BREATHE
3 SEE? Paired eye globes, optic nerves, decussation at the optic chiasm, optical tracts, and the world as projected in the optic cortex.
4 PLAY: Girl with stick and rock. 5 WORDS
6 SEX. At the right margin, Ashurbanipal ( 669–c. 631 BCE), the King of Assyria and the most powerful man on earth. In inscriptions he is described as 'king of the world', and 'king of the universe'. He watches but is unable to see that this love is cosmic.
7 WORK: Men's Work--Over millennia, men have thought, discovered, and invented many extraordinary things. Some men are rewarded for their work with compliments ("genius"), prizes, medals, raises, titles, monuments, property, authority, etc.(more below on Men's Work).
8 LIBERATION. Attempted meditation
9 PENULTIMATE: s/p diagnostic work up. Gallium (67 Ga) imaging scans have been used to detect inflammation, infection, and/or neoplasm.
In between (Bardo)
1 FLOTATION DEVICE. 2 BREATHE
3 SEE? Paired eye globes, optic nerves, optic chiasm, optical tracts, and the world as projected in the optical cortex
4 PLAY: Girl Playing Outside. 5 WORDS--Physics
Along the margin, the mathematical constant Pi (π) Felix drops an anvil past a formula for gravity .
"Oh Shariputra / All dharmas are empty" (from the Heart Sutra)
Low in the painting is a precessing proton. Because of the way protons spin in a magnetic field, we are able to make visual sense of tissues inside the body on magnetic resonance images.
6 SEX
7 WORK: Women's work: For the most recent of thousands of years, women's work lives are not much troubled by prizes, monuments and attestations of genius. A significant portion of women's professional, scientific and artistic effort, however, contends with being overlooked, ridiculed, etc.. (More below on Women's Work)
8 LIBERATION; From the Diamond Sutra:
"Like a falling star, a bubble in a stream, flame in the wind, frost in the sun, a flash of lightning, a dream, so view all created things (so is all conditioned existence to be seen)."
9 PENULTIMATE (Wave)
Suspension (Bardo) Repeat etc.,repeat, etc.
MEN'S WORK
Men have thought, discovered, and invented many extraordinary things, for which some men are rewarded with high praise and compliments ("genius"), prizes, medals, raises, glory, titles, monuments, property, authority, mistresses, etc., etc.
Two examples of men's ingenuity:
-- Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and blasting caps, which provided the fortune to bankroll his Nobel prize.
--Freud’s backpedalling of his own "seduction" theory—i.e. that patients who complain of childhood sexual abuse are dissembling fantastically, because such a high prevalence of sexual abuse in families cannot be.
In order to be providers, some men have pillaged --for example Marcel Duchamp appropriated Baroness Freightag von Loringhoven's creation of the readymade urinal titled "Fountain". This work is viewed as the first example of conceptual art, and America's grand gift to the art world. Duchamp's theft was only recently revealed. In April 1917, two days after an exhibition board rejected the urinal as art, Duchamp wrote to his sister that “one of my female friends under the pseudonym Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal (to the exhibition) as a sculpture”. After the Baroness died in abject poverty in 1927, Duchamp began to associate his name with the urinal, and by 1950, he had fully assumed its authorship.
I did “appropriate back” Gauguin’s question:Where do we come from, where are we going?
It's not just things that are pillaged. Recognition is pillaged. A noteworthy example concerns the discovery of DNA. In 1962, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Excluded and overlooked in Stockholm was their colleague Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray photographs confirmed DNA and contributed directly to the discovery of the double helix. Watson and Crick did make a loud point of mentioning that she didn't dress well.
The notable exception to all of this in my life is the late Dr. Albert Lyons, surgeon and medical historian. He granted respect to my mind and despite my being a woman, he encouraged me to join in with the grand parade of history. Dr. Alvin Teirstein did so, likewise.
WOMEN’S WORK
The hand outlines in this image quote hand stencils like those found worldwide in cave art c.40,000-1,000 BCE. Hand stencils are distributed widely in ancient caves in Indonesia, Australia, Argentina, Spain, France, and many other places. How in god’s name did that idea get around so much? Most scholars have assumed that the ancient artists painting these hands in caves were men, but archaeologist Dean Snow (whose research was supported by National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration) has determined on the basis of hand size and finger length that @ 75% of hand stencils analyzed in French and Spanish caves were painted by women. So, the first artists were predominantly women?
Artemesia Gentileshi struggled to be trained in the arts in the 17th century. It helped that her father was supportive and an artist of note. Eventually she was considered among the most accomplished Baroque artists. Her father's student Agostino Tassi raped her, and by all accounts this was a brutal event. Is it coincidental that subjects selected by Gentileshi include Judith beheading Holofernes and Susannah and the Elders?
Georgina Houghton was a 19th century British artist who painted abstractions at least 40 years before Kandinsky proclaimed to his dealer that he was the FIRST abstractionist. Houghton nearly bankrupted herself self-financing a London exhibition of her work in 1871. Her abstract paintings were aggressively ignored then and until recently, and critical response was reductionist--that she was inspired by “spiritualism”--this despite that the first male abstractionists (in the West)-- Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian-- were also inspired by spiritual themes.
SEMINAL WOMEN scientists passed over for earned recognition include (for examples), Rosalyn Franklyn (DNA), and Chien Shiung Wu (who overturned parity). Despite being demoted at University of Pennsylvania, Katalyn Karikó performed research critical for the creation of RNA vaccines. The fruit of her perseverance in the face of chronic academic discouragement-- may well be currently preserving our lives.
Women carry all of us in the womb, and overwhelmingly it is women who support our lives when we are helplessly young. Women have been seminal in the arts, in science. We acknowledge these women, so that their hard work is RECOGNIZED, so that women can take their rightful place in the grand procession of history.