A 68 page fully illustrated print copy of the catalog will be available next Tuesday. Please contact the gallery to purchase a copy at info@williamturnergallery.com.
William Turner Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition catalog for Andy Moses: Recent Paintings, a compelling exhibition of new large-scale works by Los Angeles-based artist, Andy Moses. The exhibition will run from September 9th through November 11th, 2023.
Recent Paintings is an excitingly ambitious new body of work, showcasing an artist fully engaged and at the height of his creative process. Blurring the line between abstraction and a new kind of pictorialism, Moses utilizes techniques that facilitate his almost obsessive study of the alchemical properties of paint.
Utilizing a method that is completely unique and developed outside the realm traditional painting techniques, Andy has pioneered a new language of paint, one with its own tools and materials. Every element of these pieces have been painstakingly examined. Technology in the form of complex vacuum sealed chambers has been invented to assist in producing the works and even the structures on which the painting rests are extraordinary engineering feats of their own. The end result are stunningly beautiful, highly crafted, and perfectly executed works of art done in a method that has never been seen on any painting in the entire history of art.
Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Andy Moses attended the legendary CalArts from 1979-1981, studying with John Baldessari, Michael Asher and Barbara Kruger. In 1982, Moses moved to New York where he worked as a studio assistant to Pat Steir and quickly became part of New York's nascent art scene. Moses began exhibiting with Annina Nosei Gallery, shortly after Jean-Michel Basquiat. During that time Moses also developed close ties with artists such as Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, Rudolf Stingel and Christopher Wool, who were also just emerging onto the scene.
“I’ve always loved Andy’s work. It’s interesting how it embraces many dialogues within the history of painting, from nature, landscape and science to abstraction. The paintings embrace everything while at the same time a sense of negation is always present. This polarity allows you to discover your relationship with the work itself. There’s always a sublime beauty within the work. The commingling of time and space, both real and abstract, is one of the the most relevant aspects of Andy’s work to me. Moses’s work is powerful and extreme, from the beginning to today, in concept and execution.”
- Jeff Koons
Andy Moses’ work is included in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. Andy will be the subject of two forthcoming museum exhibitions one at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History and the other at the Laguna Art Museum and was recently the subject of a 30 year survey at the SMC Barrett Gallery.
