Sandy Moore: This Happened
April 8 – May 7, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 8, 5 - 7 pm
Garrison Art Center is pleased to announce This Happened, an exhibition of paintings by Sandy Moore. This is the artist’s first solo show at Garrison Art Center. The exhibition will run from April 8 – May 7, 2023, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 8, from 5-7 pm.
This Happened is a storyboard, a series of tableau vivant-like paintings grappling with collective (racial) responsibility and Sandy’s feeling culpable for white people’s behavior towards black and brown people, spanning from 1500 to the present day. In 2015, Sandy’s life returned full circle back to making art, after spending many years as a doctor. That experience brought a sense of humanity and knowledge of the human body, that she would not have had without her experience as a physician.
“One of my principle intents - to discuss that the brutality of racism has been intractable for centuries - rings even more relevant now,” said Sandy Moore. “This motivates me to continue to share This Happened. These paintings are not literal, historical, or polemical, but they try to show how delusional and intractable the racist behavior of whites has been.”