Andy Moses

Southern California painter Andy Moses forges a bond with master artists of the past. Known for his hefty atmospheric concave and convex paintings, Moses brings the essence of Jackson Pollock, Joseph M. W. Turner and Mark Rothko’s art into his 21stcentury creations.

Moses, who was brought up near the Santa Monica beach,
would later find his psyche imprinted with surfing and the ocean.
After studying at Cal Arts and moving to New York, the ocean, sky and light of California beckoned and became the major inspiration for his art. Returning to the beach community, his personal quest took shape: to explore paint and study how the liquid substance can convey, in visceral expression, the majestic essence of natural forces.

Moses’s paintings are meditative; one gets lost in their quiet hugeness that is expansive and reductive at the same. The experience is like being high above the world, like an astronaut freely roaming the heavens. Or being adrift in an endless ocean. Or getting lost in an immense field of color.

Moses’s art may integrate theories of the masters, but with great skill and ingenuity, he arrives at an innovative vocabulary for the present – one that is eloquent in describing land, sky and sea.