Andy Moses: Into the Light Closing Tomorrow…

Andy Moses' mysterious and alluring paintings pose a subtle challenge: do we read them as landscapes, enveloping the eye as they do with forms both aqueous and mountainous? Or should we regard them as abstractions, pure plays of light and form, color and contour, literally bent into physical space? Moses welcomes either comprehension or both. This is art born of visual transcendence, seeking to find a bit of the glory of nature in the properties of paint.  

Moses grew up in coastal Los Angeles, mesmerized almost from birth by the brilliant vagaries of marine light. When he moved east after college, he immersed himself in the booming New York art scene of the 1980s and 1990s, launching his career and determining how to explore both subject matter and material. But on his return to Venice, he found himself immersed again in the plangent light of his youth. Ever since he has striven to invest every painting with such meditative luminosity, even building round and curved (mostly concave) surfaces to envelope the eye.  

Such perceptual manipulation may be related to the Light & Space movement (whose participants have been Moses’ neighbors his whole California life), but in its reliance on paint it evinces associations with the abstract impressionism of Mark Rothko and the color field canvases of Morris Louis. Ultimately, Moses follows in the footsteps of Claude Monet and JMW Turner, whose contemplations of urban and rural spaces were pretext to a hunt for light itself.  

This exhibition surveys Andy Moses’ work of the last two decades, evincing his increasingly expansive commitment to a kind of painting that at once displays and obscures imagery. This work forces you to decide what it is doing to you, what it is showing you, if and how it is tricking your eyes or playing to their strengths. It’s a kind of magic. 

Andy Moses: Into the Light is organized by Laguna Art Museum and curated by Peter Frank.

Images Courtesy Carl E. Smith for Laguna Art Museum

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! 

Alex Couwenberg: Highline - Digital Exhibition Catalog & Video is Now Available

Alex couwenberg: Highline (70-Pages Fully illustrated print catalog available october 20)

A 70-Page Exhibition Catalog Available Soon - Contact Gallery to Reserve a Copy

Couwenberg’s work taps into the visual rhythms of Southern California, where headlights and taillights play a noir contrapuntal beat to sunlight skittering across waves or filtering in gentle patterns through window blinds on a summer morning. In fact, Couwenberg likens his process to navigating a city: full of green lights, stop signs, and unexpected turns and views. This interplay between control and spontaneity animates the work, producing compositions that simultaneously convey tension and resolution. The resulting pieces are both formally rigorous and emotionally resonant—vivid reflections of an artist deeply attuned to the aesthetics of movement, light, and the layered complexity of memory and lived experience.

Born and based in Southern California, Couwenberg channels the contradictory dialectics of the region: the soft luminosity of ocean vistas and open sky versus the relentless linearity of urban freeway systems. His method—a reductive and additive layering ritual—recalls an abstract archaeology: excavated textures meet precise hard‑edge forms in a personal vernacular built from cultural signifiers and industrial gestures.

A graduate of Art Center College of Design and Claremont Graduate School, Couwenberg studied with Karl Benjamin, a pivotal figure in defining Southern California’s hard‑edge abstraction. Other influences are deeply woven into Couwenberg’s practice as well, ranging from the Finish Fetish movement—surfboard, custom‑car gloss, resin surfaces created with industrial rigor—to Light & Space’s subtle manipulations of perception. Couwenberg’s work is represented in numerous museum collections, including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Lancaster Museum of Art & History, Laguna Art Museum, Crocker Art Museum, and the Daum Museum of Art in Missouri. In 2007, he received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for painting.

SHINGO FRANCIS Liminal Presence Exhibition Catalog

SHINGO FRANCIS: Liminal Presence Catalog Now Available

Shingo Fancis: Liminal Presence exhibition catalog is now available to view online on the occasion of his current solo show at the gallery. The hard-copy will be available in the coming weeks. 

Shingo Francis was born in Santa Monica, California in 1969. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pitzer College in Claremont, and a Master of Arts degree from ArtCenter College of Design, in Pasadena. Francis’ work has been exhibited in Japan, United States, Germany, South Korea, and Switzerland. He has been the subject of museum shows at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, the Martin Museum of Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. He recently completed a permanent installation in the foyer of the Hermès Foundation in Tokyo and received the Fumio Nanjo Award in Tokyo. He currently divides his time between Los Angeles and the ancient coastal town of Kamakura, Japan.

Eric Johnson’s Madame X exhibition catalog will be available for viewing in the upcoming week. Thank you and happy holidays from everyone at William Turner Gallery.