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“PROFILE ME”

Two-Person Show with Paul Campbell and Dominic Paul Moore
August 29-September 26, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION: August 29^th 5 – 7 pm
LOCATION: Moreau Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN

Paul Campbell and Dominic Paul Moore introduce contemporary portraiture through sources from increasingly popular internet social environments and bring transitory self-absorbed profiles into the white static walls of Moreau Art Gallery. In the two-person exhibition entitled “Profile Me” curated by Sara Ebers, Campbell and Moore offer different perspectives and objectives to this current trend.

Paul Campbell, represented by Roebling Hall in New York and Drabinsky Gallery in Toronto, remarks on cyber identity with his dynamic, vibrant oil on canvas figurative portraits sourced from the online community Facebook. Depicting the emotions and energy of unique profiles, Campbell emphasizes the individual’s desire of portraying personality through a self appointed profile picture. The final result ultimately deteriorates one’s personally chosen identification into a material object.

Dominic Paul Moore, represented by Packer Schopf in Chicago, captures a darker side of profiling. Gathering his sources from Mydeathspace, a site listing the obituaries of members from the online community Myspace, Moore creates photo-realistic gouache and graphite drawings. Moore grapples with universal human aspects of life and death and how the ramifications of these online identity decisions are affected in the fleeting world one leaves behind.

Campbell and Moore make tangible the intangible and raise issues of identification and social interactions as these virtual profiles are removed from screen to canvas and from your monitor to gallery walls.

Opening Friday July 18
5-8pm


July 18 - August 31

Finding Beauty
Cheryl Warrick and Tremain Smith
Show Opening Reception: Friday, July 18, 5-8 pm

Nationally known artist Cheryl Warrick weaves densely layered visual elements of symbols, patterns and text with abstract landscapes to create an archetype of language that searches for wisdom in her paintings. In addition to her private collections and art reviews, for over twenty years Warrick has been included in over fifty museum and corporate collections. Selected collections: AT&T, Banana Republic, Bank of Boston, Federal Reserve Bank, General Electric, Harpo Studios, Lucent Technologies, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, and University of Chicago.




Tremain Smith's paintings draw from spirituality and the world around her. Earthly shpaes, patterns, and colors create a grid and structure which reveal themselves through encaustic layers. Order and chaos embrace the beautiful with deterioration. Smith is exhibited throughout The United States, many public and private collections include the Lancaster Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, United Embassies, Dubai, and Visa Corporation.

Contemporary Artists Workshop
June 27 - August 8
Opening Reception: Friday, June 27, 2008 5:30-9:00 p.m.

Part I of Summer Drawing Exhibition

542 W. Grant Place
Chicago, IL 60614
info@contemporaryartworkshop.org

Artists Showing:
JoAnne Aono
Derek Chan
Marley Freeman
Michael Hunter
Chris Lin
Joe Lopresti
Dominic Moore
Jesikah Ruehle
Estaban Schimf

NEWCITY
June 12, 2008

Packer/Schopf Gallery
942 W. Lake (312.226.8984) DOMINIC PAUL MOORE,
"You're Gonna Love it Here," multimedia. Though nor-
mally operating behind the scenes at Packer Schopf
Gallery, Dominic Paul Moore has moved into the lime-
light with his newest collection of paintings and draw-
ings, "You're Gonna Love it Here." The assortment of
gouache and graphite drawings, pulled from vintage
medical guides, are striking in their honesty, ranging in
size and jumbled together in an eclectic collage of
images. In their whittled simplicity, Moore's graphite
renderings feature a sinister, cynical feel, suggesting
our safe havens are rarely as benign as we presume. In
"Shhhhhhh, It's Ok," a medic looms over an uncon-
scious woman who, in her docility, implies a certain
level of victimization, leaving one to wonder whether it
was the man by her side or some other exterior force
which brought her to this point. In a peculiar turn,
Moore juxtaposes the medical drawings with replica-

tions of old Boys Life magazine ads and MySpace

pages. The ads, though remarkable in their technical
execution, are more spiteful than cynical, made even
more so with callow titles such as "We Are The Whities
The Mighty Mighty Whities." The Web pages, though
as gaudy as the real thing, make up what they lack in
aesthetic appeal through theory, pulled together by
Moore's interrogation of space, both social and person-
al. Such disparate images can be irritating at first, but
Moore's concept is impressive, inviting a peek into the
artist's world - and demanding a reevaluation of one's
own. (Jaime Calder) Through June 21

introducing the new and improved www.dominicpaulmoore.com.

critique and feedback are always welcomed, and check back for updates!

exsiteing times.....


ps. his show at Packer Schopf Gallery opens this coming friday, may 16 from 6-9. it's going to be quite the affair so you should probably put it on your calender to be there...