Hidden treasures discovered while digging through Frank Moore's huge archives.
Mikee and I were in Berkeley yesterday and finally got to go to the Way Bay 2 show, which we loved, and saw Frank’s “Patti Smith” painting on display!
It was a very moving, kind of surreal experience for us … it is great!
The photo was taken by Frank, one of the museum staff people, who we ended up talking with for 1/2 hour!!
Linda & Mikee
A live performance by Frank Moore 1982-1983
U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, Bancroft Way
From Frank: In “Living Sculpture” I sat for six hours in my position in the museum, waiting for people who were willing to take the time and the energy to talk to me on my word board, letter by letter. I do my art to be with people in a deeper, slower way than normal, polite, social interaction allows. My body is a great tool in this.
See more photos and read reviews of the performance on Frank’s website:
http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/living-sculpture/index.html
Mikee and I have been aware that we need to make some arrangements for Frank’s amazing oil paintings for after we are gone.
So, Mikee went online and got an email for UC Berkeley’s Art Museum, now known as BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive). We introduced ourselves and Frank, and included pictures of some of Frank’s paintings. Of course, we name dropped Bancroft Library!!
Much to our amazement they wrote back and said the director, Larry Rinder, would like to come to the house and see Frank’s paintings and talk! It was surreal. Our wonderful Keith Wilson was here to film it all. (It turns out that Keith and Larry know each other.)
Larry loved Frank’s paintings and picked two paintings (Patti Smith & Mariah) that he would love to add to their collection. He explained that because of storage issues, they can’t take the entire collection. It now goes to two committees for approval. The deal is the two paintings would go to BAMPFA when Mikee and I die, but until then they can borrow them if/when they would like to include them in shows. He recommended some other local museums that may also be interested in adding some of Frank’s paintings to their collections.
Amazing!
Frank must be totally cracking up!!!
We forgot to take some photos (!), but Keith sent us these great stills from the footage that he shot.
These are the two paintings:
See more of Frank’s paintings here: http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/paintings/index.html