The Familiars
FAMILIAR noun
noun: familiar; plural noun: familiars; noun: familiar spirit; plural noun: familiar spirits
a demon supposedly attending and obeying a witch, often said to assume the form of an animal. "her familiars were her two little griffons that nested in her skirts"
a close friend or associate. Middle English (in the sense ‘intimate’, ‘on a family footing’)
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is proud to present The Familiars, a two-person exhibition featuring the artwork of Haley Wood and Aris Moore. Using anthropomorphized subjects, Moore and Wood build fantastic lands of endearing beings and vivid colors. The results are otherworldly.
Haley Wood is a storyteller whose visual language centers on the Drollery - creatures found in the margins of illuminated medieval manuscripts. While depicting select humanoid subjects, she centers her imagery on animals with a great range of personality that often take on human qualities. Wood’s medium is the tufted rug, a challenge she embraces in the rendering of complex emotions in her subjects through static expression.
Aris Moore uses unconventional portraiture to render very human feelings and concepts into a series of anthropomorphic beings, whose expressions, body language and endearing awkwardness capture the complexity of what it is to experience humanity. Real encounters and people from Moore's life, often families, find themselves translated as a myriad of creatures: sometimes as lone figures, sometimes grouped into piling compositions, sometimes animal, sometimes human, but always rendered as soft, intimate drawings.
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