My work is about the links between present day peoples and their ancient past. My photographs and digital montages are a response to historical and scientific questions of origin, continuity and change. They portray a continuum...a movement of the soul through space and time. The camera and computer are much more than instruments of documentation. Photographs are created and manipulated as designed thoughts. Like ancient portraits carved in stone, they authorize a symbolic (if not real) connection between past and present.

"Ascertaining that the Universe is Flat" -22 color photographic montages -According to ancient Maya beliefs, we live in a universe that is flat, with four corners and four directions, each assigned a color. The series uses this idea as a point of departure.

Ohio University- BFA Graphic Design 1974 Rutgers University- MFA Studio Art 1978

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Nov:  2003:   Collaborated with Jan Lhormer on an installation/performance piece entitled "Tuckernut Way",  shown at "Mobius" Boston's premiere venue for performance art.  The piece consisted 140 projected images-juxtapositions of Urban vs. Small Town USA. 

"Past Presence's" Exhibition, July 2001, GalleryPrint Stillwater Gallery

The Clark House Gallery, Group Photography Exhibition, Bangor Maine 2000- 2001

Common Ground, The Action-Boxborough Cultural Council- Acton, MA- 1997

The Federal Reserve Bank Gallery- Boston, MA- 1997

The Central Arts Collective, National Exhibition of Digital Imagery- Tucson, AZ-1996

The Fuller Museum of Art, National Exhibition of Photography-Brockton, MA-1995

Origins and Continuities, The Mills Gallery-Boston, MA- 1993

New England/New Talent, The Fitchburg Art Museum-Fitchburg, MA-1992

New Work : Digital Montages, The Field Gallery - West Tisbury, MA - 1996

The Pittsburgh Filmmakers Melwood Photography Gallery-Pittsburgh, PA - 1997 1996

Photography & Digital Montages, The Winfisky Gallery- Salem State College, MA 1994

Representation:

The Mendleshon Gallery Pittsburgh, PA  1999- present

The DeCordova Museum Corporate Loan Program- Lincoln, MA- 1995-present

Boston Corporate Art- Boston, MA- 1993-present

Originally from New Jersey, Digital Artist John L. Moore has been working and living in Boston, MA for nearly 20 years. In 1987, he Made the first of nine annual trips to Central America. These travels would result in a collection of over three thousand photographs and recordings to be used as source material for a variety of related projects. In 1992 he received a Massachusetts Cultural Foundation Artist¼s Development Grant for multimedia production of" Emergence/Return", at The Interactive Factory, Boston, MA. Moore has also taught photography, digital imaging and design at The Art Institute of Boston and Massachusetts College of Art. He currently resides in Roslindale, Boston with his wife, artist Jan Lhormer and their young son.