Work 1982-1991

Bambi, Dumbo, Bunnies ... oh my! 

“My work has been an inquiry into the human-animal condition for a long period of time. Through this process of research into the intricacies of the human-animal world I have been pushed to explore my personal feelings about the many issues concerning the natural world…..The journey is based on dialogues derived from a multitude of issues and ideas that shape our thinking about animals. Myths, folklore, children’s literature, documentary, media, scientific study, all are important elements to these works. The internalization of these ideas then becomes personalized through the act of painting, drawing, installation, and performance. Private images and a cast of characters evolve into these theatrical, narrative works. Although the works begin with the idea of ‘issues’ they often become personal psychological statements about a private world.”

This is an excerpt from an article that acknowledge the complexities of this body of work:

DownEast Magazine, June 1989

“ ‘Marjorie doesn’t just decorate walls,’ says John Coffey, a former curator at Bowdoin College Museum of Art who now heads up the American and contemporary art departments at the North Carolina Museum of Art. An early champion of Moore’s work, Coffey singled her out for inclusion in last year’s New England Now exhibition, a sort of ‘best of region’ show which traveled to six states. ‘... the issues Marjorie takes on ---- wilderness, and man’s relationship to it----are serious ones, and she isn’t afraid to be provocative,’ Coffey says. ‘Because Moore’s animals aren’t ‘cute’ or tame,’ he adds, her work is less immediately accessible than more traditional, naturalistic works. But she’s one of the most interesting and important artists working in Maine today’.”