"Resonant Heavens"
exhibit by Jerry Moon
jerrymoon.net

September 21 - October 28, 2006

 

Please join Arts on Grand for a gallery talk 
Thursday, September 21
 5:00 - 6:30 PM

 

 

“Resonant Heavens” offers colorful, dramatic paintings that capture the detail and brilliance of Midwestern skies. Having grown up in the Midwest, Jerry Moon became fascinated with the rapidity and violence of spring and summer storms, and the cloud formations that grow around them or beget them.

 

Jerry began experimenting with various painting techniques including acrylic, egg tempera, and oil. He was drawn to egg tempera for many years, enjoying the precision and brilliance of the medium, but switched to oil about seven years ago - both to produce more paintings to meet increased demand, and to satisfy an internal desire to try something new.

 

His oils are somewhat informed by his background in tempera, by the design sense learned from his years in the commercial field, by regionalist painters such as Thomas Hart Benton and Andrew Wyeth, and magic realists like Jared French and George Tooker. Jerry attempts to blend these influences, along with years of personal observations of both the people and the vistas of the Midwest, into a "Surreal Regionalism", representing his love for the Midwest and its conservative roots, its inherent fluctuations of the seasons, and the openness and relative purity of the land.

 

Jerry Moon was born in England, raised in Missouri, and came of age in Iowa when his parents moved to Spirit Lake in 1981. He settled in Kansas City after graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute and began working for Hallmark Cards as an illustrator in 1987, where he remains employed - producing over 100 cards a year.

 

Jerry has only recently chosen to exhibit publicly. He has had group and solo shows in Kansas City, and has paintings in the permanent collections of the City of Overland Park, KS, and the Kaufman Foundation of Kansas City. This exhibit is his first foray in showing outside of Missouri.

 

This exhibit is sponsored locally by Community Bank and Insurance, and in part by operational support from the Iowa Arts Council, a department within the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.