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March 2, 2019 — April 6, 2019
Fly Away Breath — Kris Hodson Moore
KRIS HODSON MOORE & MORGAN DELUNA: W O M A N / S E L F presents 18 photographic works exploring themes of feminine identity and self-representation. The exhibition showcases a diverse range of photographic techniques, including archival pigment prints and digital pinhole images, demonstrating the artist's experimental approach to contemporary photography. This thoughtful body of work invites viewers to contemplate the multifaceted nature of womanhood and personal identity through varied photographic processes.
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Kris Moore's work addresses current events, social engagement, and protecting the natural world.
Ms. Moore began her photographic career in 1971 as a self-taught artist. Her formal studies began in 1975 at Indiana University in the Fine Arts Department. She pursued her practice in New York working as a portrait artist, photojournalist, and fine art photographer. Her work expanded to include commercial video production, copywriting, and video editing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the owner of High Fire Productions.
In 1990, Moore returned to her passion for still photography while transitioning from film to digital. She is a master inkjet color printer and Photoshop expert. Currently she co-produces Open Show San Diego with Amanda Dahlgren for the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. She taught Portrait Workshops for the nonprofit Outside the Lens at Liberty Station in San Diego in 2014 and 2016. She has shown her work in museums and galleries across the country. Her work is soon to be seen in North Park, San Diego, California, as a public installation.
A Self Conscious Experiment
Amid the mass of digital selfies that saturate social media and water down authentic dialog, visual artists continue to pursue the self-portrait for reasons both practical and sublime.
For a frustrated introvert, the self-portrait is a perfect fit. I love to work alone. If I want a model, I am always available. Lights and camera empower me to act out and purge raw emotions. But navigating through melodrama can be a perilous journey. My strategy teeters between yogic meditation and stand-up comedy.
After the performance, digital files are picked over, discarded, and chosen. The posture of the model as well as formal qualities of light and color are considered. With the final cut selected, I reach the point of overlook where themes emerge as if they have been there all along.
Plastic, like God, is everywhere. Fly Away Breath began as a spoof on the suffocation dangers of plastic. Over time the focus shifted to the environmental damage and psychological despair caused by using it.
Hush presents the moods of introversion while celebrating the grace of silence.
Soul of a Woman is an expression of time passing. From rebellion to acceptance, the experience of an aging woman in a male-dominated, youth-obsessed culture tests her nerve, but accumulated wisdom and what frayed bits of strength she can still muster will see her through.
Morgan DeLuna was born and raised in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, and relocated to Southern California in 2004.
Primarily a conceptual self-portrait artist, DeLuna's work explores the human condition and liminal space. Themes addressing the relationship between identity, appearance, and human connection are presented to create questions, dialog, and engagement between the viewers.
DeLuna's work is informed by her personal life experiences of growing up in an ethnically and religiously diverse family and a long-standing interest in the fields of anthropology, history, and science.
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Taking the perfect selfie, with all the right filters, when your hair is working, and your makeup is on point, for that one perfect image. As a xennial who lives in the limbo of a pre- and post-social media era, I felt the need and curiosity to understand the allure, effort, pressure, and reward that drives the world of insta personas and avatars.
These intimate and un-retouched self-studies came from my earnest intentions to examine form and light. I quickly became fascinated by the topographic quality of my body, specifically at this time and place in my life. The sun freckles that will surely darken, the skin that will grow more translucent over time, the scars that exist and the ones yet to come. These studies come together as a visual diary of my current physical being.
