
“Something Beautiful Happened” featured in “Art Spiel”
SEFA LES’s exhibition Something Beautiful Happened was recently featured in Art Spiel’s “Art Spiel Picks: Lower East Side in July 2024” by Michele Jaslow!
Our exhibition Something Beautiful Happened is on view at our LES location July 18 – August 31.
Something Beautiful Happened, paintings by James Moore at Susan Eley Fine Art, @sefa_gallery, 190 Orchard Street, NYC. On view through August 31, 2024
On View Through: August 31st, 2024
Featured Artist: James Moore
Something Beautiful Happened at Susan Eley Fine Art features the work of abstract expressionist James Moore—a curated presentation of the artist’s canvas paintings as well as a series of small works on paper. Moore’s paintings are infused with a lifetime of experiences. He arrived in NYC in the 1960s and settled in a loft studio in Soho, motorcycling to artist centers in Woodstock and Buffalo and frequented NYC artist hangouts. Places like Cedar Tavern, and Dillon’s bar, where he played shuffleboard with Franz Kline, was where, one would imagine, Moore joined other artists to drink and transform themselves into celebrated abstract expressionists.
The work in this show features linear elements that give rise to multiple organic forms across the canvas. Moore has said about his work, “I don’t see shapes as much as I see the energy of elements interacting to move, stop, support, or explode. I mostly use clean, bright colors to keep my world hot and alive. My paintings are like a snap-shot record—trapping moments of an event where something beautiful happened.”