Carrie Moyer
Mommy Long Legs
About the Artwork
Moyer creates multidimensional effects while building compositions with thin, aqueous layers. Rough vertical strokes evoke wood grain, producing surfaces where color seeps into cracks—a technique she likens to a hybrid of stain painting and furniture finishing. Moyer describes Mommy Long Legs as having a subtly narrative structure: creeping rays or energy at a window, three flat spheres in the clouds, and a cloudlike mass emerging as fingerprints. Blending natural, bodily, and atmospheric forms, works like this entwine fragmented bodies and shifting environments in moments of sensuality.
About the Artist
Carrie Moyer (b.1960, Detroit, MI) is a painter whose works reimagine movement, weight, and suspension using an expanded palette of materials that reshape the canvas and redirect the flow of poured pigment. Her works echo the scale of geological shifts, the sweep of winds, and the rhythm of orbiting bodies.
About the Process
Haystack collaborates with traditional printmakers and digital printers to ensure each artist’s print reflects the most important aspects of their studio practice. Mommy Long Legs was printed by the artist and Powerhouse Arts Printshop. The printshop worked with Carrie to determine and implement the printing processes that would best reproduce one of her original paintings into a limited edition print.
