Moody Charles Artist's homepage Artist's CV “I’d been studying at The Art Institute of Boston with a focus on Illustration. I was illustrating book covers, tales and different stories. As time passed, I realized that my involvement in illustration was pretty much narrative based. After two years of illustration, I found myself interested in the things that paint could do. I switched to the painting department and began taking classes in different places and schools. (…) Starting from craft and illustration, I had an admiration for people such as Odd Nurdum. These paintings are beautiful and clear in their reference to fantasy illustrators such as Frank Frazetta (Conan) or in the tradition of Rembrandt. Also, the Bay School seemed to offer something different, a way to talk about paint. Things changed when I visited the Richter retrospective at MoMA in 2002 : the first large exhibition to date in the U.S. Robert Storr’s comprehensive collective work on this fundamental artist turned illustration over for me because it showed what a picture essentially is: the relation between media, the image and the technique. He separated the concern of the image from the medium despite the content of the painting. (…) For me painting will always retain its identity with the mythic. A complexity exists in such a simple process, seemingly stable, yet pliable for exploration, as opposed to (or in addition to) photography which is a technology programmed for growth and new capabilities. For me what could be seen as no longer relevant in painting, can also be encouragement for further possibilities. Photography’s combination of technology and theoretical consequences gives further meaning of relationship towards image and idea. This I accept and enjoy when incorporating photography in my work.” (…) Charles Moody Charles Moody, Untitled (1), 2008, oil on wood, 23x30 cm More images