Moses
On view at Kohn Gallery in Hollywood is a posthumous exhibition of paintings by the influential LA abstractionist Ed Moses, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 91. Working prolifically until just two weeks before his death, Moses was a notable member of the “Cool School” artists and made work that was constantly experimental, pushing the boundaries of what paint and abstraction can do.
Read MoreThe Kohn Gallery presents paintings by Ed Moses (1926-2018) from the last decades of his life. One of the most distinguished artists during the post-war Los Angeles art scene, Moses continued to challenge himself artistically through six decades of his career. His abstract paintings were constantly evolving,
Read MoreThe Los Angeles-based enterprise Kohn Gallery has added to its roster the estate of Ed Moses, an L.A. painter who died last year. The gallery will include works by Moses in a group presentation in its booth at Art Basel Miami Beach in December
Read MoreWhen he was 90 years old, preparing for a 2016 exhibition of new work, Ed Moses zipped across the courtyard of his Los Angeles art studio in a paint-spattered wheelchair and stained Birkenstocks. The artist, who was still working every day, jerked his chair to a stop at a row of enormous canvases, the fresh paint drying in the sun.
Read MoreIn 2016, on the occasion of his first East Coast retrospective, at Albertz Benda gallery in New York, the Los Angeles-based artist Ed Moses told ARTnews, “When I catch onto something, I push it a little bit, and sometimes I get lucky. I say, ‘Wow, how did you make that?’ If it has the wow factor, I’m OK.” Judging by the critical reception of his work over the course of a long career, many of Moses’s paintings did, indeed, have that wow factor.
Read MoreWhen Ed Moses had his first show of drawings at LACMA in 1976, it was on the heels of a show at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York that earned him the sobriquet “player” from legendary critic Clement Greenberg.
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