Illumination Series
The Illumination Series is a collaboration between Walton Arts Center and Creative Community Center. The partnership's mission is to highlight practicing Arkansas affiliated artists and the Creative Community Center's engagement in visual arts while spotlighting large scale visual art that responds to the site and speaks to an architectural scale.
Exhibition
Andrea L. Moon
DATES: Now thru Sunday, May 31
LOCATION: Walker Atrium at Walton Arts Center
ABOUT:
Andrea L. Moon is a contemporary ceramic artist and sculptor. Currently residing in St. Louis, she pursues her studio practice and holds the position of lecturer in ceramics at Washington University. In addition to teaching ceramics at various institutions, Moon exhibits nationally and internationally. She participates in panel discussions, gives lectures and presents workshops, actively contributing to the dialog of contemporary practices in craft.
Moon served as the residency and communications coordinator of The Red Lodge Clay Center, the director of the international artist residency at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China and the director of education at Craft Alliance. She believes in supporting an active arts community and cultivating a creative environment for students and emerging artists.
Moon creates sculptures that are personally meditative, repetitive with pattern and orderly in structure. However, she pushes against patterns of order to create a vulnerable, tense form that implies an invitation of interpretation. She exposes the process of material through positive and negative layers, and by building in multiples tests structure and contrasts space. Moon seeks a pattern of control in building or a physical order that exposes small questions of stability and instability through form.