Guest Artist Kelly Moore, Book Giveaway

Guest Artist Kelly Moore works near Taos New Mexico, at the Tesuque reservation flea market, which Kelly calls the flea. He's got incredible energy in his work, and paints from the heart pictures of dogs/coyotes/wolves, horses, rabbits, volcanos and etc.

Under the Volcano

 

volcano dawgs

Below Kelly's writing about the volcano dawgs piece:

Closer to the Fire

its long been thought

that the ancient wolf

was domesticated by man

to serve his own needs

but recently the pointy headed folks

made a discovery

that the dark dawgs moved closer to humans

for their own reasons

shifting the focal point of the painting

to the wolfs eye

not mans

which brings me to a problem

(or what i thought was a problem)

namely my inability to paint humans straight up

without a coyote tale attached to the hindquarters

or a bird beak featured as a nose

but now im beginning to understand

all you have to do is use the wolves eye

as you read the front page of the newspaper

or drive on the innerstate

to realize we need more wild things

because humans

arent solving the human problems

and the wolves knew it...

thay came closer to the fire

because thay knew

we needed help

 

Kelly's shed at the flea, his from the ground up art studio:

 

A postcard from Kelly to the MOMA Museum of the Arts (Go Kelly go!, if it works let me know and I'll send the MOMA Museum a postcard too! but in my case I'll tell them I need at least two weeks notice to get my solo show ready):

 

Below Kelly's letter to the MOMA museum:

DEAR MOMA MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTS

CUREATOR OF THE ARTS MS ANNE TEMKIN

LAST WEEK WHILE IN OKLIEHOMA I STOPED AT A TRUCKSTOP

FOR A BATHROOM BREAK (#1)

AND WHEN I HAD FINISHD MY BUSINESS

EYE TURNED AROUND

AND LO AND BEHOLD

THERE ON ONE OF THE VENDN MACHINES

WAS A PIXTURE OF A WOMAN WHO LOOKD JUST LIKE YOU

(EXCEPT HER MOUTH WAS WIDE OPEN AND HER EYES WHAS CLOSD)

AND I REALIZD IT WAS A SIGHN FROM GOD

(HE HAS ASSURED ME MY TIME IS COMN)

THAT I WRITE YOU

THIS WEEK TO LET YOU KNOW MY CUTTING EDGE

(I AM WORKN ON HORSES AND RABBITS REAL HARD ANDAS I LOOKED ON YOUR WEBSITE

I NOTICED THAT SURE ENOUGH YOU DIDNT HAVE ANY HORSES RUNNIN WITH DARK BIRDS FLYN OVER THEM

AT THE MOMA MUSEUM)

FLEA MARKET ART IS READY FOR THE SOLO FIRST TIME YOU

GOT A DRY PATCH AND WANT ME TO MAIL

THE NEW HORSE PAINTINGS YOUR WAY

(PLEASE GIVE ME A WEEK NOTICE)

 

So now we've come to the giveaway of Absurdity is my Friend, a book of paintings and artwork by Kelly, photos by Kat Livengood. I'm going to ask at least 15 people to say a few words about Kelly's work via a comment to this blog. After 15 people have commented I'll put all your names in a hat and draw the winner who will receive a free copy of Kelly's book, courtesy of Kelly. So comment away!

folk art mary

Comments

[Mary Shelley]

Michael, thanks so much for your comment. I am the creator of this blog and yet I realize I don't know how to make a comment, I just know how to respond to others' comments. So here I am asking people to comment for the book giveaway but perhaps even if they wanted to they couldn't figure out how to do it. Did you notice a "make a comment" button at the blog?

[michael moody]

I like that little building! You can tell that it was styled by a dedicated soul and it goes along very well with the creative style of his artwork!

[Mary Shelley]

Thanks for your comment Donna. Please more comments from the rest of my readers. I've got this gorgeous book written by Kelly with photos by Kat Livengood, lots of glossy photos, 1/2 inch thick. You can comment here at my blog or at my facebook friend or fan page. Once I get your name I'll put it in a hat as a contender to receive the book in a prize drawing.

[Donna]

Absolutely love his use of colour. His work is vibrant and full of life.