Lincart is pleased to present the work of Michael S. Moore and Bob Van Breda.

Opening Reception for the artists:
Friday, September 7th, 6 to 8pm
With live musical performance by Octomutt!
Show will be on view through October 20th

Michael S. Moore was born in Los Angeles in 1942.  He majored in painting at Stanford University, studied briefly at Yale and has been committed to the art of contemplating light, space and memory for more than thirty years. He officially resides between Benecia, CA, Gerlach, NV, and Gardner CO.

He is something of an itinerant landscape painter, documenting the changing light and times of the high desert in and around the Northern Great Basin.  His gestural use of watercolor and acrylic allow him to convey the constant variables of sun and shadow as they play dramatically across the western landscape. The apparent simplicity of these works is belied by their visual complexity.

Moore’s work was first exhibited by Linder in 1993, and again in 1996. For this show, Lincart will install a huge wall of Moore’s daily watercolors, capturing the desert’s ever changing seasons and shadows. Also on display are several large canvasses, giving us a bird’s eye view of Moore’s soaring experience with the landscape.

Bob Van Breda is a San Francisco artist with L.A. attitude: he’s not going to let the vagaries of an oblique, regional art scene stop him from scaling the heights of the Art World’s towers.  He’s got big ideas that start off small and then catapult out of scale as you envision them as large scale public sculptures.

Originally trained in Architecture and Design at Cal Poly S.L.O. and later at Cal State L.A., Van Breda’s current day job has resulted in many a chewed-up pencil.  Desktop doodles become futuristic skyscrapers (filled entirely with van Breda tenants) as the artist cobbles together the fantastical elements of his architectural sculptures.  It’s Pixie Sticks meets Lincoln Logs as Bob pegs pencil onto pencil, building maquettes for public art that function entirely on their own as Pencil Sculptures.

Back at his woodshop, van Breda works on widgets; Stoic little cityscapes, the sculptural constructions are built from the leftover end cuts of hardwood boards that the artist finds in woodworking shops.  Repostioned and dowelled together, these toolbox Mondrian’s are a testament to the artist’s interest in tinkering and in the harmony of found forms.

Please join us at a reception honoring these two fascinating artists.