Cindy Stockton Moore is a Philadelphia based artist who works with aqueous media to create site-specific wall drawings, works on paper and multimedia animations. Current projects on view include: “An openness to all things lovely” at Glen Foerd on the Delaware that explores the role of forgetting in historical memory, using a historic period room as a site of exploration and accumulation - and the installation “Other Absences” at Eastern State Penitentiary, a group of fifty quiet portraits, also confronting longing and loss. Recent projects include “Shadow Tag” for “Narrowed Plot” at Arlington Arts Center– an exhibition that investigated a single North Philadelphia lot over a period of three years– and “Consciousness and Revolt” at Moore College of Art &Design– a temporary monument to The Myth of Sisyphus. Stockton Moore’s writing on art has appeared in FlashArt, ArtNews, NYArts Magazine, SciArt Magazine, The New York Sun, and Title Magazine in addition to university publications.

During Art in the Open 2022, I will work with handmade inks –made from natural, locally foraged material–to paint water-based sketches that will be used to create short animations. Sharing examples of the materials gathered from the environment (grapevine charcoal, acorn caps, walnut hulls, and river water) and the resulting inks, I can show the tactile process of creating dye-based ink, underscoring the connection to the landscape. I will be both painting on site and experimenting with short and playful animations directly in nature, sottobosco, with a portable copy stand. A small interactive table will be set up where visitors could test less handmade inks/pigments with modifiers - watching the color shift alongside the pH balance. During the AiO weekend, I aim to create a small series of works on paper and ephemera - using the materials on-hand to create an animation that moves through its native environment.