Nancy Moore: Women and Other Animals
September 7 - October 12
On display in The Meetinghouse Gallery
Women and Other Animals
Paintings by Nancy Moore
September 7 – October 12, 2025
An opening reception will be held September 7, 2025 from 2-4 pm.
The Gallery is open Tuesdays – Sundays 8:00 am – 4:00 pm for viewing. (Closed Mondays).
Artist’s Biography
There are many ways to unlock parts of ourselves. For Nancy Moore, the key arrived while working as a book editor (her profession for 38 years), in the form of a deluxe 96-pack of Crayola crayons she treated herself to in a moment of crazy. She opened the lid, and the scent transported her to the cool green linoleum floor of her childhood playroom, where she spent hours blissfully imagining and drawing. Those crayons, along with watercolor and pencil, led Moore to create her first painting as an adult: a chameleon titled “Self-Portrait,” the idea being that women are continually shedding and growing new emotional and intellectual skin as they adapt to the myriad roles they assume. That painting, the first one to sell in her first exhibition, was all the incentive Moore needed to keep painting as she juggled job and family.
As time passed, Moore’s chameleons began sporting women’s heads and hands, eventually becoming fully realized women. This direction led to her ongoing series of “Unconventional Women.” According to Moore: “I feel like I’ve tapped into a rich vein of material that I’ll be mining for a long time to come. These women keep appearing in my head, whispering to my heart, and dancing onto the paper—I’m trying my best to keep up with them. At this point, I feel like I’m creating the community of women I want to be surrounded with.” The artist also continues to paint animals and botanica, and returning to that well of inspiration is an act of renewal for her.
Moore paints predominantly on large slices of beautiful archival paper, choosing to work with watercolor, graphite, gouache, metallic paint, colored pencil, wax crayon, and wood burner. Her themes include transformation, ethnography, design, shape-shifting, gender identity, evolution, fashion, and creation myth.
The artist is self-taught and proud of that, reveling in the distortion of body proportions and perspective in her work. The goal here is to create narratives from emotion and instinct, hoping to translate what bubbles up in her mind, through her hand, and onto the paper.
In 2005, Moore was invited to exhibit her paintings of the animal world at the opening of the Environmental Sciences Center at Yale University’s Peabody Museum. What was supposed to be a 3-week-long exhibition ended up running for one year. Her scope has continued to expand, with work widely exhibited in galleries, museums, and other public institutions. Her paintings also hang in many private homes, from Vermont to California.
To see more of Nancy Moore’s work:
- Visit her website: www.nancymooreart.com
- Follow her on Instagram: #nancymooreart
- Contact her: nancymooreart@gmail.com
All of Moore’s work is also available as signed, limited-edition giclée prints
