November 16, 2012  Artists as curators: Brooke Moyse  Continuing
the "Artists as Curators" series this week, let's look at "The
escape from the banal of everyday life to the world of the
ideal," an exhibition at NURTUREart curated by Brooke Moyse, a
Brooklyn-based abstract painter known for vivid color and casual
landscape imagery. Moyse begins her essay, which seems like it
could be used as a statement about her own work, with a
wonderful poem from painter Dorothea Tanning's recent book of
poetry Coming To That:   If Art would only talk it would, at
last, reveal  As for our certainties, it would fetch a dry yawn
then take a minute to sweep them under the rug:  certainties
time-honored as meaningless as dust under the rug. High time, my
dears, to listen up.  Finally Art would talk, fill the sky like
a mouth, clear its convulsive throat while flashes and crashes
erupted as it spoke—a star-shot avalanche of visions in uproar,
drowned by the breathy din  of soundbites as we strain to hear
its august words:  Jon