Andy Moses Exhibition Catalog 2014

ANDY MOSES

RECENT WORKS

WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY

RECENT WORKS Santa Monica, CA - The William Turner Gallery is pleased to present, Recent Works, a collection of new paintings from Los Angeles based artist, Andy Moses.

Continuing his exploration into the nature of paint, Andy Moses’s newest works are mesmerizing hybrids of art and science. Implementing boundarypushing techniques that he’s been practicing for the past 30 years, Moses creates paintings that blur the line between pure abstraction and a new kind of pictorialism.

These aren’t representational images, yet there are undeniable traces of natural phenomena in Moses’s paintings. He seeks not to replicate imagery from the natural world, but to mimic nature itself. His complex process of altering, mixing and pouring paints is informed by the physical behavior and interaction of his medium with the forces of nature.

Moses’s sweeping, luminous surfaces are executed with an almost impossible precision - a precision that is simultaneously organic and highly controlled. His meandering lines of psychedelic chroma oscillate between near digital sharpness and dissolving washes of color. In these works, Moses has managed to achieve a unity of line and color that has an extraordinary presence.

Moses acts as a sort of alchemist, first mixing and transforming his paints for weeks and then applying them in a single marathon session. Critic Shana Nys Dambrot says of his process, “More than a painterly technique, his composition resembles an orchestration of observed natural phenomena: gravity, viscosity, hydrodynamics. He manipulates thickness instead of brushwork, motion instead of gesture, to replicate both natural and transformational processes, forcing idea and matter into a conscious collaboration.”

Andy Moses lives and works in Venice, California. Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Moses attended California Institute of the Arts from 1979 to 1981. At CalArts he focused on performance, film, and painting, studying with Michael Asher, John Baldessari, and Barbara Kruger. In 1981, he moved to New York and worked for the artist Pat Steir. Later that year he developed a type of process painting that is simultaneously abstract and representational. Moses is interested in pushing the physical properties of paint through chemical reactions, viscosity interference, and gravity dispersion to create elaborate compositions that mimic nature and its forces. He was in his first group exhibition at Artists Space in 1986 entitled selections. He had his first solo exhibition in New York at Annina Nosei Gallery in 1987. He has continued to exhibit his work in New York, Los Angeles, and abroad over the past thirty years. He returned to Los Angeles in 2000, where he continues to refine and expand the vocabulary of his specific painting processes, imagery, and interrelationships with the technical and natural world. His paintings are included in a number of prominent public and private collections.

Morphology 1207, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 60�x60�

Left: Morphology 1207 as installed

Morphology 1206, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 60”x60”

Morphology 1209, 2014, acrylic on lucite mounted on convex wood panel, 60”x60”

Geomorphology 1403, 2014, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 45”x84”

Morphology 1208, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 60�x60�

Right: Morphology 1208 as installed

Geomorphology 1402, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 45�x84� (Detail) Left: Geomorphology 1402 as installed

R.A.D. 1001, 2014, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 40”x48”x24” Right: R.A.D. 1001, as installed

QED Morphology 1202, 2014, acrylic on smooth and textured lucite, 48”x64”

QED Morphology 1101, 2014, acrylic on smooth and texture lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 48”x72”

Morphology 1601, 2014, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 54�x108�

Left: Morphology 1601 as installed

Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena, 2015, acrylic on polycarbonate mounted on concave wood panel, 42� x 68�

Memo from Turner, 2015, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 54�x78�

Morphology 1405, 2015, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 48”x84”

Morphology 1407, 2015, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 48”x84”

Morphology 1210, 2014, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 60”x60”

Morphology 1408, 2015, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 48”x76”

R.A.D. 1201, 2015, acrylic on polycarbonate mounted on wood panel, 44”x75”x11”

ANDY MOSES Born: Los Angeles, CA, 1962 EDUCATION 1979 - 1982 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA AWARDS 1987 Premio Michetti, Fondazione Michetti Italy SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2011 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2010 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2010 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2009 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2008 Bjorn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Sam Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2008 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2007 Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 Galleri S.E Bergen, Norway 2007 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2006 McClain Gallery, Houston, TX 2006 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Patricia Faure Galler,y Los Angeles, CA 2005 McClain Gallery, Houston, TX 2004 Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL 2004 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Off Main Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY 1988 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY 1981 California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2015 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA 2014 LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Melissa Morgan Gallery, Palm Desert, CA 2013 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2013 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA 2012 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2010 Nyehaus Gallery, Swell, NY, NY 2010 Peter Blake Gallery, Summer Group Show, Laguna Beach, CA 2010 William Turner Gallery, Material Matters, Santa Monica, CA

2010 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA 2009 Bjorn Ressle Gallery, Winder Salon, NY, NY 2009 The Black Cat Gallery, Darkwave 2009 The Black Cat Gallery, Black Cat Festival 2009 The Black Cat Gallery, Black Cat Festival 2009 Eric Phleger Gallery 2009 The Black Cat Gallery, Power Trip, Culver City, CA 2009 Deborah Page Gallery, Material Boundaries 2009 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Inagural Exhibition, Palm Desert, CA 2009 Arena 1 Gallery, Weekend, Santa Monica, CA 2009 Phantom Gallery, Surface of Space, Long Beach, CA 2008 Arts Manhattan, DNA Evolution, Manhattan Beach, CA 2008 MODAA, Liquid Light, Culver City, CA 2008 Peter Blake Gallery, 15 Years 15 Artists, Laguna Beach, CA 2008 Nuuanu Gallery, California Dreamin , Honolulu, HI 2008 Modern Masters Fine Art, Finish Fetish @ MMFA, Palm Desert, CA 2008 Pharmaka Gallery, Surface of Space, Los Angeles, CA 2007 dba Gallery 256, Liquid Light, Pomona, CA 2007 Peter Blake Gallery, West Coast Abstraction, Laguna Beach, CA 2007 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Anita Shapolsky Group Show, New York, NY 2007 Arena 1 Gallery, Pink III, Santa Monica, CA 2006 Gallery C, LA Minimalism Today, Hermosa Beach, CA 2006 George Billis Gallery, All in the Family, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Patricia Faure Gallery, Pink, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Berman Turner Gallery, Flow, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Spike Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Cartelle Gallery, Pink, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Patricia Faure Gallery, White on White, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Atheneum, La Jolla, CA 2003 Gallery C, The Art of Paint, Hermosa Beach, CA 2003 Double Vision Gallery, Double Vision, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New Concepts, New York, NY 2002 SpaceProject, EleMental, Hollywood, CA 2002 Arts Manhattan, Close Proximity, Manhattan Beach, CA 1997 Nabi Gallery, To the End and Beyond, Sag Harbor, NY 1996 Millennium Gallery, East Hampton, NY 1994 Cambell Thiebaud Gallery, Lana International, San Francisco, CA 1993 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Newspace, Instincts of Intuition, Los Angeles, CA 1991 Hallwalls, Pleasure, Buffalo, NY 1990 Amy Lipton Gallery, New Metaphysical, New York, NY 1990 Marta Cervera Gallery, Matter and Memory, New York, NY 1988 Asher/Faure Gallery, Unstable Universe, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Annina Nosei Gallery, Spacial Effects, New York, NY 1986 Artist’s Space, Selections, New York, NY

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 2014 Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Environmental Impact, Malibu, CA 2014 Laguna Art Museum, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Laguna Beach, CA 2012 Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA 2010 Contemporary Arts Center, Elements of Nature, New Orleans, LA 2009 Laguna Art Museum, Collecting California, Laguna Beach, CA 2009 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Elements of Nature, Malibu, CA 2008 Laguna Art Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Laguna Beach, CA 2008 American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA 2007 Frederick R Weisman Museum of Art, Made In California, Malibu, CA 2006 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, LA Art Scene , Los Angeles,CA 2005 Riverside Art Museum, Flow, Riverside, CA 2003 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Â Los Angeles, CA 1988 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Skeptical Beliefs, Newport Beach, CA 1987 Fondazione Michetti Rome, Italy

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