“Bambi meets Dumbo on the road to salvation and deliverance. Absurd? Perhaps. But Marjorie Moore is an artist who is constantly seeking the deep in the dumb, the meaningful in the mundane, the truth in trite.”

“From the factual commentary of the Journey to Greenville series, Moore quickly took flight into fantasy. In 1984 for example, she satirized the ritual aspects of hunting in a multi-media installation at Bowdoin College, entitles The Artist as Hunter. In the 1986 piece, Toying in the Woods which Moore collaborated on at Portland Museum of Art, and in related paintings such as Trouble in the Thicket and Cervine Mutations, she appropriated Walt Disney’s Bambi as a symbol of man’s ultimate manipulation of nature. In Bambi, something with wild integrity has devolved into a figure of absurd banality.” – Edgar Allen Beem , Maine Times Feb 9, 1990

“The High Wired Series paintings, never exhibited in Maine, depict a strange figure which seems to be Moore’s apotheosis of Self. In the solitude of the artist’s colony (MacDowell), Moore conjured up a being at once human, canine, and marionette who performs an awkward balancing act in the garish light of a circus tent. In most of the High-Wired paintings, this Moore-anima seems in immediate danger of falling…”– Edgar Allen Beem, Maine Times Feb 9, 1990