'Three Circles'
Acrylic on canvas
26 x 52" 2024
Marge Loudon Moody Artist Statement 2025
As an artist I use drawing, painting, collage, mixed media and, occasionally, printmaking as methods of expression. I am inspired by my experience of places, both distant and close to home, and from my imagination.
I use non-representational imagery to describe the ‘spirit’ of place. My work is about a subject rather than a literal depiction of it. Through a rigorous process of working and reworking composition and art elements, I arrive at a harmonious expression of the essential nature of the subject. I work thematically as each experience may suggest many possible visual outcomes. Subject matter may serve as metaphor for intangible ideas.
Color is an important element in my work, and one with which I am well-practiced.
“Moody’s paintings brim with dynamism, giving the impression that the harmony that sustains them is always on the brink of dissolving. The colours, (sic) shapes and lines are in a constant state of transition, attesting to the ephemeral quality of our experience of place”. (Excerpt)
Lucas Battich, post-doctoral fellow in philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience at the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, in response to a solo show, selected work, Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America, Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, GB 2013
“Marge Loudon Moody’s collage abstractions are metaphors for both the material world and the world of ideas. In her art statement Ms. Moody writes that when she is making collages, she “often feels like she is drawing shapes with a knife”. One could add to this statement, that, in (sic) many occasions, she is also painting with paper. Her mastery of the acrylic medium comes across in her collages with the same controlled fluidity and color success we see in her paintings”. (Excerpt)
Dionisio Cortes, Chief Curator, FRONT Artspace, New York, New York, in an essay about my collage Retrospective Then and Now: Collages 1979 – 2017 at Winthrop University Galleries, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 2017/18
Marge Loudon Moody Artist Statement 2025
As an artist I use drawing, painting, collage, mixed media and, occasionally, printmaking as methods of expression. I am inspired by my experience of places, both distant and close to home, and from my imagination.
I use non-representational imagery to describe the ‘spirit’ of place. My work is about a subject rather than a literal depiction of it. Through a rigorous process of working and reworking composition and art elements, I arrive at a harmonious expression of the essential nature of the subject. I work thematically as each experience may suggest many possible visual outcomes. Subject matter may serve as metaphor for intangible ideas.
Color is an important element in my work, and one with which I am well-practiced.
“Moody’s paintings brim with dynamism, giving the impression that the harmony that sustains them is always on the brink of dissolving. The colours, (sic) shapes and lines are in a constant state of transition, attesting to the ephemeral quality of our experience of place”. (Excerpt)
Lucas Battich, post-doctoral fellow in philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience at the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, in response to a solo show, selected work, Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America, Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, GB 2013
“Marge Loudon Moody’s collage abstractions are metaphors for both the material world and the world of ideas. In her art statement Ms. Moody writes that when she is making collages, she “often feels like she is drawing shapes with a knife”. One could add to this statement, that, in (sic) many occasions, she is also painting with paper. Her mastery of the acrylic medium comes across in her collages with the same controlled fluidity and color success we see in her paintings”. (Excerpt)
Dionisio Cortes, Chief Curator, FRONT Artspace, New York, New York, in an essay about my collage Retrospective Then and Now: Collages 1979 – 2017 at Winthrop University Galleries, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 2017/18
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