FOREWORD:

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 boundary-pushing 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 fluid. 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, CA. His paintings are included in a number of prominent public and private collections including the Laguna Art Museum and the Fredrick R Weisman Museum.

Morphology 1206, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 60”x60”Right: Mophology 1206 Detail

Morphology 1205, 2014, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 60”x60”

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

MILKY WAY, oil on canvas, 84”x84”

Morphology 1208, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 60”x60”Right: Morphology 1208 Detail

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

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”

QED Morphology 1202, 2014, acrylic on smooth and textured lucite, 48”x64”Right: Morphology 1202 (Detail)

Geomorphology 1402, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 45”x84” Left: Geomophology 1402 (Detail)

Geomorphology1403, acrylic on lucite mounted on concave wood panel, 45”x84”

Artist in studio with Geomorphology1403

ANDY MOSES

Born: Los Angeles, CA, 1962

EDUCATION1979 - 1982 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

AWARDS1987 Premio Michetti, Fondazione Michetti Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS2011 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2010 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2010 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA2009 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA2008 Bjorn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY2008 Sam Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2008 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA2007 Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica2007 Galleri S.E Bergen, Norway2007 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA2006 McClain Gallery, Houston, TX2006 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2005 Patricia Faure Galler,y Los Angeles, CA2005 McClain Gallery, Houston, TX2004 Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL2004 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2003 Off Main Gallery, Los Angeles, CA1998 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY1997 Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA1996 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY1995 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY1988 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA1987 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY1981 California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS2014 LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA 2013 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2013 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA 2012 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2012 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2010 Nyehaus Gallery, Swell, NY, NY2010 Peter Blake Gallery, Summer Group Show, Laguna Beach, CA2010 William Turner Gallery, Material Matters, Santa Monica, CA

2010 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA2009 Bjorn Ressle Gallery, Winder Salon, NY, NY2009 The Black Cat Gallery, Darkwave2009 The Black Cat Gallery, Black Cat Festival2009 The Black Cat Gallery, Black Cat Festival2009 Eric Phleger Gallery2009 The Black Cat Gallery, Power Trip, Culver City, CA2009 Deborah Page Gallery, Material Boundaries2009 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Inagural Exhibition, Palm Desert, CA2009 Arena 1 Gallery, Weekend, Santa Monica, CA2009 Phantom Gallery, Surface of Space, Long Beach, CA2008 Arts Manhattan, DNA Evolution, Manhattan Beach, CA2008 MODAA, Liquid Light, Culver City, CA2008 Peter Blake Gallery, 15 Years 15 Artists, Laguna Beach, CA2008 Nuuanu Gallery, California Dreamin , Honolulu, HI2008 Modern Masters Fine Art, Finish Fetish @ MMFA, Palm Desert, CA2008 Pharmaka Gallery, Surface of Space, Los Angeles, CA2007 dba Gallery 256, Liquid Light, Pomona, CA2007 Peter Blake Gallery, West Coast Abstraction, Laguna Beach, CA2007 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Anita Shapolsky Group Show, New York, NY2007 Arena 1 Gallery, Pink III, Santa Monica, CA2006 Gallery C, LA Minimalism Today, Hermosa Beach, CA2006 George Billis Gallery, All in the Family, Los Angeles, CA2005 Patricia Faure Gallery, Pink, Los Angeles, CA2005 Berman Turner Gallery, Flow, Los Angeles, CA2004 Spike Gallery, New York, NY2004 Cartelle Gallery, Pink, Los Angeles, CA2004 Patricia Faure Gallery, White on White, Los Angeles, CA2004 Atheneum, La Jolla, CA2003 Gallery C, The Art of Paint, Hermosa Beach, CA2003 Double Vision Gallery, Double Vision, Los Angeles, CA2002 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New Concepts, New York, NY2002 SpaceProject, EleMental, Hollywood, CA2002 Arts Manhattan, Close Proximity, Manhattan Beach, CA1997 Nabi Gallery, To the End and Beyond, Sag Harbor, NY1996 Millennium Gallery, East Hampton, NY1994 Cambell Thiebaud Gallery, Lana International, San Francisco, CA1993 Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY1992 Newspace, Instincts of Intuition, Los Angeles, CA1991 Hallwalls, Pleasure, Buffalo, NY1990 Amy Lipton Gallery, New Metaphysical, New York, NY1990 Marta Cervera Gallery, Matter and Memory, New York, NY1988 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 EXHIBITIONS2014 Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Environmental Impact, Malibu, CA2014 Laguna Art Museum, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Laguna Beach, CA2012 Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA2010 Contemporary Arts Center, Elements of Nature, New Orleans, LA2009 Laguna Art Museum, Collecting California, Laguna Beach, CA2009 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Elements of Nature, Malibu, CA2008 Laguna Art Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Laguna Beach, CA2008 American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA2007 Frederick R Weisman Museum of Art, Made In California, Malibu, CA2006 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, LA Art Scene , Los Angeles,CA2005 Riverside Art Museum, Flow, Riverside, CA2003 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA1988 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Skeptical Beliefs, Newport Beach, CA1987 Fondazione Michetti Rome, Italy

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