Artist Statement:

Growing up, saddled with the binary history of the American south, I was faced with the peculiar positionality of the “Black body” and its use and perception in that history. In my work, I contend with varying dualities and how they serve to speak to the human condition and cosmic repositioning. As an educator, I have taught art professionally, from kindergarten to college in public and private sectors.  I am vested in the discipline as an artist for life.

 

As a creative, my intent is to create a future construct with the timber of past and present material activated with imagination. I am a curator of experiences, an architect of a new reality where love, power, and miraculous converge to manifest maximum wealth of body, mind, and spirit. My process emerges as paintings, drawings, assemblage, writing, and installation.  I often make use of recycled southern elements utilized as charging agents in my work. The red clay is transubstantial as it is imbued with the blood of our ancestors. Therefore, I paint with life for life.  The repurposing of these media speak to present issues in a type of social recycling. Art (A Resurrecting Truth) is my weapon of choice in the quest for liberation of life from any social or mental construct that binds us to anything less than our highest potential. My practice is situated on the pillars of revelation, resurrection, re-membering, revival, and the reclamation of a chosen, rather than an imposed reality, and resulting future. Life is the art.

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About Jahni:

John “Jahni” Moore is a southern born visual artist. His early years were spent immersed in books, church, and nature. Through books and the natural world, he developed an insatiable desire to “know and creatively express through narrative.” He is a graduate of Alabama A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Graphic Design, an M. Ed in Art, and an M. F. A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As an educator, Moore has taught art professionally from kindergarten to the university level. He is the creator of numerous murals and public works from Chicago to Colombia South America where he twice served as Art Ambassador. One great honor is that his work hangs in the Fernando Botero Library in San Cristobal, Colombia, South America. He has shown all over the United States at venues such as Laxart in Los Angeles with Paul McCarthy and Jenny Hauser to New York Riverside Church alongside original works by Kehinde Wiley. Currently he works out of his studio he calls the C.H.U.R.C.H. (Come Help Us Restore Cosmic Harmony) in Huntsville, Alabama.  Jahni is committed to activating a creative paradigm shift, where purpose-driven creative achievements become the cornerstone of a thriving and interconnected global community.​