“In paintings that resonate with post-industrial America, Moore rearranges the world.”

ROCKLAND, Maine — John Moore’s realistic views are fabricated. He combines parts of diverse sites to create invented places. As poet and critic William Corbett wrote in an essay for Moore’s 2005 exhibition at the Hirschl & Adler Gallery in New York City, “All that appears in these pictures exists but not as it does in the paintings.”

Since his days as a graduate student at Yale in the late 1960s, Moore has maintained his method of composing paintings from multiple sources, attempting, he has written, “to collage those sources into a seamless whole.” Such faultless wholes can be found throughout the exhibition John Moore: Resonance, at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, which features 22 oils on canvas and 5 charcoal studies.

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