Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorporates a myriad of abstract qualities throughout his paintings. In his figurative work, Mooney romanticizes his subjects and presents them in an atmospheric lens that is best described as dreamlike. His paintings appear to be capturing a moment suspended in time. While his work feels familiar, it is not specific. Rather it is, on a very basic level, symbolism of what could have been, has been or will be.

Born and raised in the heart of midtown Manhattan , Mooney’s roots in art go back to his youth. His father, an amateur artist, taught him how to create oil paintings from discarded art supplies found on city streets. To Mooney, the city was an endless source of inspiration at an early age. Though the artist would later take classes in art both in high school and college, he regards this early exposure as the truest form of training he has ever received.

After a brief career in the film industry, the artist moved out of New York in the mid Nineties to rural Vermont. The open and bucolic settings of the countryside allowed Mooney new sources of inspiration.

Today, Mooney devotes himself full time to his art at his studio in Vermont.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS: The New York Hospital, NYC, NY Cornell Medical College, NYC, NY Merchant Ivory Films, NYC, NY/London, UK The Browning School, NYC, NY Tufts Univ. Dental Sch.,Boston, MA Biogen Inc., Cambridge, MA Conde Nast Corp., NYC, NY

SELECTED PUBs: 2009 American Art Collector 2008 Burlington Free Press 2007 Shelburn News 2006 New England Art Review

SELECTED GALLERIES: Galerie Sono, CT Enid Lawson Gallery, London Gallery North Star, VT Maine Art, ME Gallery One, TN S. Greenwood Fine Art, CA