Frank C. Moore (painter)

Frank C. Moore II (June 22, 1953 – April 21, 2002) was a New York-based painter, winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts, and a member of the Visual AIDS Artist Caucus—the organization liable for the (Red) Ribbon Project, A Day Without Art, and A Night Without Light.

Moore's father, Earle K. Moore, was a communications and civil rights lawyer in Manhattan, who won a landmark accomplishment establishing that publicize stations must advance the interests of their viewers. His sister, Rebecca Moore, would cutting edge become a computer scientist, environmentalist, and founder of Google Earth Outreach. Frank Moore was born in Manhattan in 1953, then moved bearing in mind his family to Long Island, N.Y., first to Great Neck, and later to Roslyn, where he first attended Roslyn Junior High School. He graduated from Roslyn High School in 1971, where he had been supple in student politics and served as class president. Moore's be in was fixed for display for years in the high school halls. They were eventually removed during a renovation and following lost.

He attended Yale, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1975, and he studied at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris from 1977 to 1979. His art began appearing in intervention exhibitions in 1979, as he worked as a set designer for radical dance choreographer Jim Self in Manhattan.

Deeply indebted to Surrealism, Moore's paintings frequently depict drive scenarios and highly developed landscapes, often when environmental sub-texts (in a picture-postcard Niagara Falls, chemical signatures of pollutants drift in the mist), or references to AIDS (in Viral Romance, 1992, a reversed bouquet blooms human immunodeficiency virus). His diplomatic stance was broad and nuanced bearing in mind homoerotic imagery. He died of AIDS upon April 21, 2002, aged 48. Late in 2012, the double exhibition Toxic Beauty, comprising the most collective review of Moore's work, was upon view at New York University. His sister Rebecca Moore completed his action setting stirring the Gesso Foundation for artists after his death.