"Artist Donald Moffett's newest exhibition "Snowflake" is a poetic combination of visually magnetic paintings and political bite that couldn't be timelier. On view at Alexander Gray Associates in New York, the show features nine new extruded oil and spray paintings, and arrangements of bumper stickers that are free to take. All of it draws you within inches of the surfaces and leaves you with the inspiration and tools to consider and affect the world outside the gallery."
"Moffett is well respected in two worlds: He's a founding member of Gran Fury - the graphic design collective that emerged from ACT UP in the late 1980s, creating some of the most powerful and important media with the mission to end the AIDS pandemic. Gran Fury's posters, stickers, and billboards made a massive impact in spite of censorship challenges and stand today as an inspiring example of persistence, necessary rebellion, and the power of creativity in social/political movements."
"He is also known for his unbelievably intriguing "extruded paintings" that build up oil paint with a grass-like effect on precision-carved plywood. "Snowflake" brilliantly combines the beauty, graphics, and activism to an effect that both comforts and challenges. "Snowflake" includes seven new white and pewter extruded paintings - resembling a strange fur more than oil paint from a distance. Suspended a few inches from the wall, each invites you to look simultaneously "at" and "through" them - a mix of physicality and weightlessness."
Donald Moffett's Snowflake presents nine new extruded oil and spray paintings alongside free-to-take bumper stickers at Alexander Gray Associates in New York. The exhibition pairs tactile, grass-like extruded paintings with mirror-like gloss spray works that absorb and reflect viewers. Seven white and pewter extruded pieces hang a few inches from the wall, inviting simultaneous looking at and through their surfaces, and echo Moffett's NATURE CULT series addressing accelerating climate change. The show bridges Moffett's Gran Fury graphic-activist legacy and his inventive painting techniques, merging visual beauty with political intent and participatory elements.
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