The summer exhibitions have been on display for almost a month at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Now the curatorial staff will go a bit deeper with a tour this
A master fabricator, he was a wizard at handling the new materials and technologies used by California artists in the 1960s. But to the public, he remained a hidden gem.
Heâs been hailed as âone of the most productive and experimental artists of the last half-century,â but to the owner of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Ed Moses was something more: He was a family friend.
Moses founded the Cool School, a group of seminal Los Angeles creatives, many of whom were represented by the Southlandâs Ferus Gallery in the 1950s and 1960s.
Other members of the Cool School included Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Edward Kiehholz, John Altoon, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston.
âTheir raucous partying and creative camaraderie not only fused a nascent local scene but made the art world beyond take notice,â the LA Times said in a valedictory to Moses, who passed away in January 2018.
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art exhibits paintings and digital pigment prints by Ed Moses
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.- Saving the Best for Last, an exhibition of 24 paintings and six digital pigment prints by the late artist Ed Moses, opened at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art December 15, 2020 through February 6, 2021. Online viewing is available at telluridegallery.com. This collection of work includes a group of his most recent acrylic paintings, as well as digital prints provided by Patricia Correia Projects. It is the only 2020 solo show of Ed Moses work.
Even in his 9th decade, Southern California native Ed Moses spent most days in his Venice studio. In one of his final interviews, he told Los Angeles Times reporter Deborah Vankin You caught me on a good day! Pointing to freshly painted canvases drying in the sun, he explained, These are all self-portraits. These paintings have history, action - scars and blemishes, scratches and imperfections. These are me. S