ANDY MOSES: Recent Paintings - Exhibition Catalog Now Available

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.  

ARTNOWLA - Andy Moses: Recent Paintings

William Turner Gallery will present 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.

Andy Moses: 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. The paintings that emerge articulate the abstract nature of perception, reaching beyond the material and tapping into the visceral.

The images reveal undeniable traces of natural phenomena, seeking not to replicate the natural world, but rather to suggest the forces of nature itself. The artist’s complex process of mixing and pouring paints conveys a sense of undulating energies pushing and pulling within the rectilinear and circular forms of the canvases themselves.

The paintings are sweeping and luminescent, their lustrous surfaces seemingly executed with an impossible combination of absolute precision and wild improvisation. Meandering lines of psychedelic chroma oscillate between vivid sharpness and dissolving washes of color, achieving works of captivating presence. Viewing the work from multiple perspectives, one is swept into an interactive dance, as light plays across the surfaces in lustrous ever-changing hues.

Speaking about his work, Moses says, “I want the work to stop you in your tracks, to shake you out of your head and into the moment, into the present, where you can become receptive to a more meditative experience that hopefully begins to attune you to the transcendent beauty of the natural world.”

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-Michael 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.

After eighteen years in New York, Moses returned to Southern California in 2000, where the change in coasts led to a significant shift in his work. In New York, the artist’s work had explored the macro / micro influences of nature, conveying a sense of gravitational and geologic forces. In returning to California, the scope of Moses’s work expanded, as he was once again inspired by the unique effects of light glancing off waves, and the vast sky-scapes he encountered on his daily drive down the Pacific Coast Highway. The artist began exploring materials that would capture the mercurial aspects of perception, where slight shifts in perspective would reveal dramatic shifts in impression. Accordingly, Moses’ work began to incorporate many of the qualities now associated with the Southern California Light and Space movement, where the work of art became less an “art object”, and more of a “catalyst” for one’s experience of what and how they perceived. Suggesting panoramic space, Moses began introducing concave and shaped panels to further investigate how light and its wave-lengths would curl and flex with refractive paints. These bold new paintings quickly found their audience and brought Moses to the attention of museums and major collectors alike.

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. He currently lives and works in Venice, CA.

ANDY MOSES: RECENT PAINTINGS - Saturday September 9, 5-8PM

ANDY MOSES: RECENT PAINTINGS
September 9 - November 11, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 5-8PM

Greg Miller - The Da Vinci Questionnaire - Nostalgic Nods to Ubiquitous Tropes

Greg miller at work in his Austin, Tx Studio

Extracting familiar pictorial codes from the pop culture of his youth, Greg Miller – who divides his time between New York, NY, Fredericksburg, TX and LA, CA, and whose work is featured in numerous museum and private collections, with a volume of his writings, photography and paintings having been published in 2010 – plumbs his own psychological depths only to discover what makes him love work and life.

To view the online exhibition catalog for the show please click HERE.

Once Upon A Time

Exhibition Catalog now available Online and in Print. Please contact the gallery for a copy of the print version.

GREG MILLER: Once Upon A Time - Exhibition Video

Please enjoy this short video highlighting work from the exhibition. To view the exhibition catalog please press the button below.

TOMORROW AT BERGAMOT STATION

Mark Steven Greenfield - The LA Metro Project - Red Car Requiem

For L.A.'s newest underground art experience, head down to the Metro Regional Connector

For your next art outing, head underground.

The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority debuted its Regional Connector Transit Project yesterday, a $1.8 billion undertaking that’s been more than a decade in the making. It includes three new downtown L.A. subway stations — theGrand Ave. Arts/Bunker Hill, Historic Broadway and Little Tokyo/Arts District stops — and each are filled with ambitious new works of art.

Eight artists were commissioned by Metro Art to create permanent, site-specific installations for the stations: Andrea Bowers, Clare Rojas, Audrey Chan, Mark Steven Greenfield, Ann Hamilton, Clarence Williams, Mungo Thomson and Pearl C. Hsiung.There are also two wall-mounted light box installations in the Broadway and Grand Avenue stations, part of a rotating art program. The inaugural artists for those spaces are Ralph Gilbert and Samira Yamin.

Mark Steven Greenfield with his glass mosaic, “Red Car Requiem,” at the new Historic Broadway Station. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

“These are significant pieces, by established artists, that are integrated into the overall architecture of the project but also will attract people on their own,” says Metro Art program Senior Director Zipporah Yamamoto. “People will stop and look at these artworks. It’s a major part of the transit experience — and the Los Angeles experience. It extends the downtown L.A. arts and culture experience into the station.”

By Deborah Vankin (Read the rest of the piece on LATimes.com)

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Piecing together parts of a large-scale glass mosaic mural in for the Historic Broadway Station. Created by Mark Steven Greenfield, “Red Car Requiem” is a site-specific mural spanning a 171-foot wide. The artwork is the largest glass mosaic artwork in Metro’s system. Each element of the artwork was matched in the dynamic colors and the placement of over 1 million hand-cut glass pieces during the mosaic’s fabrication process. The Regional Connector is a 1.9-mile light rail project connecting the A Line (Blue), E Line (Expo) and L Line (Gold) in downtown Los Angeles. The project features artwork integrated into three new stations: Little Tokyo/Arts District Station, Historic Broadway Station, and Grand Ave Arts/Bunker Hill Station. For more information on the Regional Connector Transit Project artworks, visit: https://metro.net/moredtlaart

PRESS: LA WEEKLY - MEET LIGHT FIELDS PAINTER CASPER BRINDLE

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MEET LIGHT FIELDS PAINTER CASPER BRINDLE

Abstract painter Casper Brindle renders pure color in aerated layers that capture and refract light, creating breath and a sense of motion with their awe-inspiring luminosity. Heartily influenced by the legacy of the Light and Space movement—which embraced the qualities of wonder in newfangled materials like resin and airbrush, as well as the imagination-fueling advances in interstellar travel—Brindle updates that art historical framework with a modern-day love of the surf and car cultures of his Los Angeles youth. Using automotive paint to enhance that space-age shine as well as an elusive sense of nostalgia in the super-charged palette, Brindle layers delicate coats which seem to capture light in between—later to release it to viewers in an eternal glow. Seeming to change as the viewer moves past them, and carrying the illusion of distant horizons or doors (of perception) as a framework, the magic in Brindle’s canvases actually happens in the eye of their beholders.

By: Shana Nys Dambrot - June 12, 2023

Íslenskir Fossar exhibition walkthrough with Jay Mark Johnson - This Saturday During Spring Open at Bergamot Station

Join us this Saturday, May 13th from 2:30-4pm for an artist-led walk-through with Jay Mark Johnson. Jay will be leading a tour of his recent exhibition ÍSLENSKIR FOSSAR. Ten spectacular large-format images of waterfalls and geysers are selected from the most recent photographic artworks in the artist’s two-decades-long production of paradigm-shifting timeline imagery. A cocktail reception will begin at 2:30pm, and the walk-through will commence from 3-4pm.

JAY MARK JOHNSON ÍSLENSKIR FOSSAR
Artist Led Exhibition Walkthrough
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Cocktail Reception Starts at 2:30PM
Artist Led Talk and Exhibition Walkthrough Starts at 3PM

Additionally, Bergamot Station Arts Center is hosting its annual Spring Open on Saturday, May 13th. Over 20+ galleries and cultural venues will be hosting special artist talks, walk-thrus, and openings, beginning at 10AM and lasting ALL DAY. Be sure to stick around for the comedy shows, food trucks, and a special live performance by the Santa Monica Youth Orchestra.