About

Alexis Jean Moore is a contemporary oil painter living and working in Northern California. 

Artist Statement:
My oil paintings are a combination of realistic renderings of the human body, blind contour drawings, and loose brushstrokes. I began incorporating these different styles together as a way to challenge myself to move away from the rigid-ness of perfecting form and shape in my paintings. Instead, I opted to create a sense of playfulness in my subjects, allowing some parts of them to be abstracted, or even completely absent from the work. In moving away from perfection, I found I was able to create more mystery in the things unseen, which allows my figures, plant forms, and natural objects to live in a world between realism and imagination. With lines and shapes unfinished, yet still enough visual information present to understand the subject depicted, I’ve demonstrated how life in all it’s forms is ever active: changing, growing, and never quite finished. 

As my art has evolved and is never completely finished, neither am I. Since graduating in 2016 from Westmont College with a BA in Fine Art, I have continued experimenting and refining my painting style, exploring lines, shape and form, thereby testing the previous versions of myself as an artist. I intend to pursue this exploration more by earning my MFA within the next few years.