Nil and Fancy

Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of  drawings by Aris Moore. 

The work consists mainly of female portraiture, though many include men, children, a couple or a family. With disturbingly disproportionate faces, and pleasantly detailed, delicate clothing, the people of Nil and Fancy straddle the lovely and the grotesque. Inhabiting the space between what is perceived versus what is presented, Moore’s people are neither children nor adults; never entirely strong, nor vulnerable; attractive nor repulsive. She gives them an uncanny semblance of personality. In fact, while uncomfortably strange, a figure will seem even more unnervingly familiar. It is difficult not to find a peculiar likeness to someone else, be they known, or imagined.