User Spotlight | Ian Moore

Ian Moore‘s work is a diverse assembly of the furious and curious. His illustration has a surprisingly beneficial split not only between color and black and white work, but also between the modern and postmodern. A touch of Steadman and Basquiat, a smattering of cubism, and good ole’ surrealist face-mutations form a thick blanket of reference that only enhances Moore’s novelty and intensity.

Moore’s work appears deeply attuned to this kind of cross-pollination, having produced waterolor, ink drawings, and even street art. A few common elements help give an identity to these varied media, but the strongest is Moore’s incredible mastery of abstraction to add a frenetic depth to each piece. Even at its most viscerally weird and chaotic, Moore’s art never completely effaces its subjects/figures—there is in almost every case some core of divinely mad sentience undulating beneath the many gorgeous, absurdist strata. Moore’s work is, for these and many other reasons, wonderfully challenging and resonant.

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