BABCOCK RANCH ART SHOW

BABCOCK RANCH ART SHOW | READY TO DISPLAY COLOR AND TALENT
Article published: March 08, 2023

BY NANCY STETSON
Babcock Ranch Telegraph Correspondent

In this fifth year of the Babcock Ranch Art Show, Bonita Springs artist Christine Adele Moore is participating for the second time.

After Hurricane Ian, she wasn’t sure what to expect from art shows.

“It was difficult to know where to invest my time and money and energy,” she said. “I was trying to strategize where to go.”

But after seeing the “60 Minutes” report about Babcock Ranch, “I thought, that’s pretty cool. I love the whole idea of that community.” When she displayed her art two years ago, it was just a one-day show. Held in collaboration with ArtFest Fort Myers, it’s now been extended to two days, March 11 and 12. The art show includes about 50 artists from all over the country, working in painting, sculpture, jewelry, 2-D and 3-D mixed media, photography, glass, wood, ceramic and fiber.

“I remember how windy it was,” Ms. Moore said of her last show at Babcock Ranch. “It was a good show for me. I made a lot of great contacts. I sold several paintings, and everybody was delightful.”

She describes her work as “contemporary, multimedia, layered acrylic paintings meant to evoke, for the most part, a sense of joy, gratitude, peace and/or well-being.”

She explained, “Most of my pieces have a toe in the representational world, but with an abstract and contemporary edge. And having it be a little abstract, I think it allows more room for the imagination and makes the work more compelling over time. If something is super representational, if you’re told too much what to see, it’s less compelling to me.”

Ms. Moore, who used to be a mural artist, uses many layers and various material in her work.

“It’s primarily acrylic on canvas; that’s the main medium,” she said. “But I use other material: sand, modeling paste and reflective media of all kinds – gold leaf, silver leaf and copperleaf, broken mirrors sometimes. I think that having this reflective material adds life from within because the light reflects and makes it alive.”

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