"Fun With Father and Son"
Jeffrey Moose and introducing Elias Moose

Jeffrey Moose is known for his work as owner of Jeffrey Moose Gallery, curator of the Painteld Table Restaurant and the Alexis Hotel, and co-founder of the former cooperative Net Contents Gallery on Bainbridge Island. But his career has continually involved the production of art in many media. A figurative representational artist for the majority of his career, starting with figure drawing classes at The Corcoran Museum at age 12, his aesthetics and conceptual concerns took a major turn after graduating from The School of The Art Institute

Mr. Moose moved to Santa Cruz, California and continued to print his own lithographs at The University of California, Santa Cruz and to create large images in pastel. During this period, a fascination with high resolution photographs from deep space produced a body of paintings, still representational, which inspired most of the following 2D efforts to date.

Jeffrey Moose
"Eye in the Sky"
pastel on Paper
48"x42"
1997

"Eye of The Dosewallips" suggests three separate realities: a large fish like form, in reds and yellows, rises from the center of the picture plane, predominately black. The form itself acts as a window into another space, one which is fiery and agitated compared to the quietness of dark space. The bottom of the scene is filled with watery blue, swirling with flashes of red from which the fish erupts. Despite this description, every viewer seems to see something different in the strange world.