Memory Landscapes
By Addie Moore
SEPT 19-28, 2025, HOMME Gallery, 2000 L ST NW, Washington, DC
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12-5 PM or by appointment
Opening Reception: September 19, 6-8 PM
Memory and Craft Workshop: September 20, 12-5 PM
About the exhibition
Through large-scale paper mache, ceramic sculpture, and drawings, Addie explores the idea of home and belonging. This body of work speaks to the journey we all take to find our own way. It touches on moments passed, missed, or misremembered, reflecting on the spaces we can never return but will always long for. In an attempt to resemble safety and belonging based on these memories, we look for our worth in others' eyes and try to enter that room without ever having been given the key.
Photography by Todd Echols
Artist Statement
I think we are all searching for home. Or what should have been home. Longing, striving for an imagined past, revisionist and false.
Our memories fail us and create fiction so fantastic- could-bes that never were.
It is disingenuous to believe and strive for these falsehoods. We are not liars but are flattered by the glitter of a mirage that “was.” I struggle with the could-bes too. Fantasies of who I could be - in the right light - with the right love. Maybe I find comfort in the longing. It’s easier than sitting in silence and confronting the mirror.
Bio
Addie Moore is an interdisciplinary illustrator living in Washington, DC. She is a current resident artist at Icebox Studio in Hyattsville, Maryland. Her practice is an act of play and personal reflection, often like a diary recording experiences and landscapes of anxiety and personal struggles with memory, anxiety, emotional recovery, neurodivergence, and escapism. She creates works about memory, escapism, and mental health through expressive ceramic, mixed media, paper mache installation, and digital processes. Through layering, color, and image, she harnesses emotion and distorts memory, inviting the viewers to reflect on the complexities of the human experience through ceramic, mixed media, paper mache, and digital processes.
This project was funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Special thank you
My incredibly talented assistant, Annika Papke. I literally could not have made it through this year without her. Also, her paintings will change your life.
Icebox Studios (Steve Jones) for teaching me how to weld and offering space to complete his project, and for accepting me into your studio community
Austen/Morris Custom Furniture (Dennis Turbeville) for teaching me how to use a CNC and for showing me some incredible woodworking tools and (and wood church).
