"Jeremy Moon at Luhring Augustine" by D. Creahan

Artist Jeremy Moon had worked for a little over a decade when his life was tragically cut short by a motorcycle accident in 1973.  Yet the artist’s work during this short period, the subject of an exhibition at Luhring Augustine’s Bushwick location this month, offers a striking fusion of the era’s painterly and conceptual thematics, combining serialism, minimalism, shaped-canvas painting, colorfield painting and abstraction into a colorful and often commanding body of work.  The gallery, which recently announced its representation of Moon’s estate, presents an introduction of a practice that stands out for both its stylish fusion of techniques with a precise sense of both critical discourse and practiced technique.

Through minimal gestures and a careful attention to color and form, Moon’s works offer a playful variation on the canon of post-War abstraction.  Utilizing simple gestures and ample negative space, the painter’s approach to the canvas allows him to create deeply immersive systems, pulling the viewer’s eye into alternating lines and subtly illusive formal arrangements.  His piece Signals, for instance, draws on both the jagged symmetry of his shaped canvas and the alternating patterns of lines stretched across its pointed edges.  Mixing up the patterns of red and grey lines based on position and proximity to each edge, Moon’s works create a sense of internal rhythm from his spare elements, a theme that seems to echo throughout the show.  Other works, like At Midnight (1965), apply a similar approach towards a more nuanced engagement with just color and brushstroke.  Playing simple curved lines against a deep blue backdrop, the artist’s work riffs on the language of design in the same breath as that of serialist painting, exploring a shared language Moon’s previous work in the advertising field was surely informed by.

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