Riverson Fine Art features contemporary figurative art by Mississippi Delta Artist Joe Moorman

"Cleopatra's Obelisk" 
contemporary figurative painting. acrylic on canvas. 22 in x 28 in.

Riverson Fine Art and Mississippi Delta artist Joe Moorman

Joe Moorman is a self-taught artist from the Mississippi Delta. Here is a brief statement by the artist:

I think of my art as illustrations or pictures derived from stories as opposed to decorations or elements of interior design. Each work begins as an illumination, an icon, a record of an important experience. This emotional significance gives the art a spark of life, but almost immediately the work takes on a life and character of its own, which must be respected if the art is to be successful. I am most successful when I "listen" to a painting and allow it to follow its own path to completion. Each piece of imaginative art seems to have its own internal logic, and I have observed that imposing the will of the artist or even the nature of the external model usually compromises the art.

Beneath each image in the gallery, there is some short text about the painting or mosaic in question.  Usually the text is a brief story about growing up in the Delta or some comments about how the work fits into Joe's development as a self-trained artist, sometimes a little of both.  Joe plans to arrange the pictures and stories in this website, or later versions, into a larger narrative and publish as an illustrated book.

Portfolio

A complete portfolio of Joe Moorman's artwork can be viewed using the sitemap or the pages that group the art by theme, media or aspects of style.  The links to the theme pages are in the bottom menu bar.

 Website and images copyright 2004 Joe Moorman.  Not to be reproduced without express permission.