July 11, 2025
This interview with Carl Moore was recorded at the Memphis Listening Lab on February 5, 2023.
The artist Carl E. Moore lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee. He recieved both his BFA and MFA from the Memphis College of Art.
Moore is the recipient of the Emmett O’Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration and the Tennessee Artist Fellowship award from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. He has exhibited in various galleries and museums in and around the Memphis area and around the country. Additionally Moore has curated and organized numerous exhibitions in small galleries, non-profits, alternative and independent spaces, as well as served as juror for local and national exhibitions.
Moore’s work explores everyday narratives through color and identity, by comparing ideologies about race and stereotypes to everyday perception of social and environmental culture. He uses media-based events as the primary theme of his work, by taking situations and reducing them down to their most basic conversation. He also use color and content to redefine the social connection between people and their environment, by making color part of the compositional statement.
