Moses@100 Named 1 of Top 5 Things to do In August! - C Magazine

William Turner Gallery is honored that C Magazine has recognized Moses@100 as one of California’s five must-see experiences for August, and we invite visitors from Los Angeles and beyond to experience the exhibition while it remains on view.

For those who have followed Ed Moses’ work for decades, Moses@100 offers an opportunity to revisit the work of one of Los Angeles’ great artistic innovators. For those encountering Moses for the first time, the exhibition provides an introduction to an artist whose curiosity never diminished.

One hundred years after his birth, Ed Moses’ work continues to move, challenge, and surprise.

C Magazine writes: “Each month we share five unmissable things to see and do in the Golden State. You heard it here first.” The gallery is thrilled that the exhibition celebrating the art of legendary Calirfornia artist Ed Moses was considered one of the unmissable milestones of the month! 

Curtis Ripley: High Fidelity Opening

Santa Monica, CA - William Turner Gallery is pleased to present Curtis Ripley: High Fidelity, an exhibition of new paintings by Curtis Ripley opening April 25, 5-8 PM, and on view through June 20, 2026. The exhibition unfolds as a visual composition: lyrical, atmospheric, and finely attuned to the rhythms of perception.

In Ripley’s paintings, glimmers of paint flicker and flare across darkened grounds, activating the surface with a sense of movement and light. Gestural curls and swirls interact with lines and dashes that guide the viewer’s eye in a choreographed passage across the picture plane. These marks are not merely expressive—they are structural, establishing a sense of tempo and poetic cadence that gives each work its internal coherence.

Forms in Ripley’s work do not resolve immediately. They hover, coalesce, and dissolve, shifting in and out of focus as the viewer’s attention lingers. Color behaves similarly: shapes emerge from the ground only to recede again, creating a continuous interplay between presence and disappearance.

Curtis Ripley, Dreaming in Color, 2026, oil on canvas, 40 x 30”.

The result is a dynamic tension between flatness and depth that remains deliberately unsettled. This instability gives rise to a pronounced sense of atmosphere. Gestural forms drift across layered fields of tone, while Ripley’s palette moves between moments of luminous intensity and expanses of saturated darkness. Subtle gradations of color produce fleeting effects — recalling distant light, reflective shimmer, or the charged stillness of a landscape at dusk. The paintings unfold perceptually, revealing themselves over time rather than at a glance.

Ripley’s practice occupies a space between the gestural immediacy of Abstract Expressionism and the immersive chromatic sensibility of Color Field painting. His work synthesizes these traditions into a contemporary language grounded in process, layering, and revision. While resonant with historical explorations of light and atmosphere, his paintings remain distinctly present—open-ended, responsive, and experiential.

Curtis ripley, Silver Springs, 2026, oil on canvas, 60” x 48

Presented concurrently with Unrepentant Beauty by Roland Reiss, High Fidelity offers a complementary approach to perception—one grounded not in constructed illusion, but in painterly sensation and temporal experience.

Throughout a career spanning more than four decades, Curtis Ripley has exhibited nationally and internationally, with an extensive record of solo exhibitions. Born in Lubbock, Texas in 1949, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1975.