Oh no my Readers, this is not the Kelly Moore that springs to mind when you see the name. This is a man of vision and painterly passion that was new to me. This is enough to make me want to get into the car and get out in Taos (which I do on any given day ANYWAY).
Now before you go hopping over to his AWESOME, crazy and inspiring website, let me warn you that it is THE rabbit hole from another planet. Poetry, photography, MORE Paintings and these cool little figures that have me enthralled. It is NOT an easy site to navigate. Use your "History" button, but he set it up that way...I assure you. The site is "Raw Art by Kelly Moore".
The man even has a Blog (I KNOW!) called: A Murder of Crows.
Yes, yes, there's a bit of New Mexican Basquiat here and Jeese Reno fans will snap their heads around so fast they'll have to wear a neck brace. Just remember that Kelly has been up to this for a L O N G time.
Jeesh. I just love it.
Thanks for stickin' with me. Lately I've noticed some Blogs that have what I call The Never Ending String of Photos. ....like, a billion. You've usually lost me after a few: "what were we talking about?...what is this again and Where Are We????"....not that there's anything wrong with that...I just had a bitchy time trying to choose a couple of Kelly's images.
See you in New Mexico.......
This this THIS is how I want to paint...Thank you Lisa!!! What an awesome post!
Posted by: Julie Prichard | October 01, 2008 at 01:44 PM
Amazing work and great guy! I met him at the Santa Fe flea market and his work is fabulous in person too- Raw and wonderful!! When do you want to go?
Posted by: caroline | October 01, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Mmmm, ahhh, YES I like these paintings too!
Posted by: o l g a | October 01, 2008 at 03:32 PM
Wow! I am running over to his sites right now. Wow! New Mexican Basquiat no doubt. Wow!
Posted by: Seth | October 01, 2008 at 08:10 PM
i really like his work.
thanks for this post, leese.
Posted by: dawnhouser | October 02, 2008 at 05:38 AM
Whoaaaa.....just spent a while with a hot cuppa and his amazing rabbit hole of a website. I love his writing and his miss-pelled words. He has a very unique voice which he is fully engaged with. What a pleasure to see and hear his world, his perceptions, his vantage points. Love the blog title - wish I would have thought of that. I also love that he bypasses the gallery route and sells at Tesuque. Subverting the dominant paradigm all around! Thanks Lisa, this is a rare treat. xo frannie
Posted by: Fran Meneley | October 02, 2008 at 08:24 AM
Thanks so much for more great links. Love this!
Posted by: Chris | October 02, 2008 at 04:50 PM
Just keep lobbing those blow-the-hinges-off artists and their work at us and we will never grow (a) old or (b) closed-minded. Who knew?
Posted by: Marylinn Kelly | October 02, 2008 at 09:13 PM
Lisa,
Thanks for this heads up...what an incredible painter, and writer...I LOVE his work.
But, wait, are you in NM now? If yes, what a beautiful time of year for a drive...
Going to go jump back in..
x..x
Posted by: stephanie | October 03, 2008 at 08:36 AM
Lisa, thanks for coming to my blog for a visit. (It's beyond cool when one of my artist-blogging heroes shows up!)
Kelly Moore is appealing to me on so many levels. And I LOVE his blog. A fresh voice when I so badly needed to hear one. Thanks!
Posted by: ps_pirro | October 03, 2008 at 08:49 AM
Come on down, the weather is fine. And the Market is almost over the season, but i know lots of very cool places beyond the Market, glass graveyard anyone?
Leau from the Land of Enchantment (that's what we like to call dust...)
Posted by: Leau | October 03, 2008 at 09:09 PM
I've been sending Kelly's postcards out to people for over a year -
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Posted by: sarahfishburn | October 05, 2008 at 12:20 AM
PS
The ONLY Kelly Moore I ever knew of - who's the other to whom you refer?
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Posted by: sarahfishburn | October 05, 2008 at 12:22 AM
Once again you've expanded my world by bringing something entirely new to me, Lisa. Kelly's work and words are brilliant, what a find and what a great, colorful post. Thanks always! xox
Posted by: Linda Warlyn | October 05, 2008 at 02:00 PM
wow - great stuff lisa! i especially enjoy seeing how an artist can have the same signature of style whether on canvas or dimensionally. i never knew kelly was a 'he'.
oh - and clever subject line lisa!!
(if, like sarah, another reader doesn't know the other 'kelly moore' then they'll be amused to know it's a paint company)
Posted by: michelle ward | October 05, 2008 at 06:45 PM
oh ya! i've been a fan of his for a long time now. his work is ever so grand. and his newsletters are quite intoxicating as well. curiouser and curiouser just like his art.
Posted by: kelly snelling | October 06, 2008 at 06:44 PM
you're a regular talent scout, you.
i DIG this other, kelly moore.
hopefully 8 or 9 billion people won't decide to imitate and turn something fabulous and REAL into something trite and tired.
i HATE it when that happens.
Posted by: mary ann | October 06, 2008 at 09:47 PM
And these are even cooler, these surfaces are so rich!
Posted by: shirleyendesaxe | October 17, 2008 at 06:45 PM