Andrew Moore, Palace Theater, Gary Indiana, 2008 - Courtesy of the artist Jackson Fine Art.
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Theater
22/01/2026 - 21/03/2026
Jackson Fine Art
3122 East Shadowlawn Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30305
www.jacksonfineart.com
Andrew Moore Theater presents a thematic thread that has carried the artist throughout his career. Photographing these grand yet fragile interiors, Moore captures theaters in various stages of restoration, use, and decline, honoring them as cultural vessels that once gathered entire communities. His images evoke a cinematic stillness: velvets faded, plaster crumbling, and light drifting across rows of empty seats as though awaiting an unseen audience. In these environments, Moore shows how theaters function not only as monuments to artistic expression but also as witnesses to the passage of time, bearing the traces of generations who performed, watched, and
dreamed within their walls.
Standing before these images, we are given room to project our own memories and stories. The theaters become reminders that we, too, are actors navigating shifting sets, evolving scenes, and our own inevitable final act. "Rather than being told what to feel, what to do, or what to look at," Moore explains, "I'm always trying to leave space in my pictures for the viewer to have these different emotions happening at the same time and to have to find your way." Through this work, Moore highlights our enduring need for beauty, ritual, and shared experience — essential elements not only to the survival of these theaters, but to our own humanity.
22/01/2026 - 21/03/2026
Jackson Fine Art
3122 East Shadowlawn Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30305
www.jacksonfineart.com
Andrew Moore Theater presents a thematic thread that has carried the artist throughout his career. Photographing these grand yet fragile interiors, Moore captures theaters in various stages of restoration, use, and decline, honoring them as cultural vessels that once gathered entire communities. His images evoke a cinematic stillness: velvets faded, plaster crumbling, and light drifting across rows of empty seats as though awaiting an unseen audience. In these environments, Moore shows how theaters function not only as monuments to artistic expression but also as witnesses to the passage of time, bearing the traces of generations who performed, watched, and
dreamed within their walls.
Standing before these images, we are given room to project our own memories and stories. The theaters become reminders that we, too, are actors navigating shifting sets, evolving scenes, and our own inevitable final act. "Rather than being told what to feel, what to do, or what to look at," Moore explains, "I'm always trying to leave space in my pictures for the viewer to have these different emotions happening at the same time and to have to find your way." Through this work, Moore highlights our enduring need for beauty, ritual, and shared experience — essential elements not only to the survival of these theaters, but to our own humanity.