The man who helped create the red ribbon as an international symbol for AIDS awareness in 1991, died on Sunday, Newsday reports.
He was an active board member of Visual AIDS, a group that raises money to help fund artists with HIV/AIDS. He was instrumental in conceiving of the overlapping red ribbon as a symbol for AIDS awareness which has since become an international symbol of the fight against the virus.
Several of Moore's paintings were included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial, a prestigious showcase of contemporary artists. His works are also part of the permanent collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney as well as at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. The Yale graduate described his paintings as a "journey of his long battle with HIV."
A book of his work, titled Between Life & Death, will be published in May by Twin Palms Press.
Moore is survived by his partner, Patrick Orton of Manhattan, and by several family members. Moore was cremated. A memorial service has yet to been scheduled.