Avery Moore

I have always been drawn to color and light and how they interact to create an overwhelming awareness of euphoric satisfaction. Both color and light express emotions in a nonverbal manner, influencing one’s feelings. The prioritization of color and light is something I strive to achieve in my work.

Gelatin is a material that humans interact with on a daily basis: shampoos, candy, jams, beer, and breath mints to name a few. Growing up with a mother in the candy industry, I can still vividly see the lined metro shelves with buckets of orange Knox gelatin in my childhood kitchen. Being a child raised by a single parent, your greatest fear is that something is going to happen to that parent. Moving away from home, using gelatin in my art was my way of staying connected to my mother, even though I was thousands of miles away from home. Life is ephemeral, I know that one day all those that I know will die, my mom will die, I will die, and through my work, I am aiming at preserving what cannot be preserved. Just like gelatin, we are all slowly molding, till we dissolve and become nothing but a moment in time.

I approach each piece I make as an experiment. I want the outsider to question how I was able to achieve the same feeling one gets from viewing Dan Flavin’s fluorescent strip lighting art but in an imperfect way, with mold and fading colors, where the “final result” is never certain.

Avery Moore
Born 2001, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

2023, BA, Sarah Lawrence College