Edward Moses
Edward Moses (born April 9, 1926 in Long Beach , California , USA - † January 17, 2018 in Venice , California) was an American abstract painter and graphic artist .
life and work
Ed Moses studied at the University of California from 1955 to 1958 . After completing his studies, he worked as a draftsman in an aircraft factory.
From 1975 to 1976 he taught at the University of California in Los Angeles. In 1976 he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts and received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980 .
Ed Moses was an experimental, constantly changing, and evolving artist. Characteristic of his abstract painting technique was that he seldom worked with a brush or paintbrush, used dyes, knife techniques and splash water, worked with canvas, polyester and powder paint and laid out his lines with adhesive tape.
Moses was one of the abstract artists with a solo exhibition in 1958 at the legendary Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles , where other artists such as Wallace Berman , Billy Al Bengston , Robert Irwin , Craig Kauffman , John Altoon , Larry Bell and Ed Ruscha exhibited. Ed Moses participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with four pictures in the Idea + Idea / Light department .
literature
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today. Catalog. Volume 1: Material. Volume 2: List of exhibits. Kassel 1972.
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972. Kassel, Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .
Web links
- Examples of his work
- Materials by and about Ed Moses in the documenta archive
- Obituary in the Los Angeles Times online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moses, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moses, Ed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Long Beach , California, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 2018 |
| Place of death | Venice , California |