MATERIAL WORLDS new works by Constance Moore

Material Worlds is a collection of imagined landscapes and natural forms. Made from fabric and paper scraps, the work evokes places both familiar and unknown, where time passes from day to night in a single moment. Bright colorful bits of material create bodies of water, rounded hills, layered ground and lively mountain peaks. Ordinary material blossoms into unique formations of petals, leaves and berries. The work exists between collage and quilting. Reclaimed bits of fabric and paper bring unexpected colors and textural surprises into each sewn piece. Material Worlds celebrates nature through a mix of close observation and playful imagination.

BIO:

Constance Moore is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Oakland, CA. She shares her young students’ love of color and hopes to transmit their spirit and freshness into her work. Borrowing a color palette from the elementary art room where she teaches, her work is bright and playful. Constance loves working with tempera paint, crayons, fabric scraps and felt, materials commonly found in schools. She is the illustrator of The Colors of My World series written by Nancy Johnson James. Constance’s debut author/illustrated picture book biography, A Language of Stitches:The Radical Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, will be published in July 2026.