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5/11/2008

Two solo shows

Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco

Ed Moses

Renowned abstract painter Ed Moses opens a solo exhibition at Brian Gross Fine Art on Thursday, November 6, with a reception for the artist from 5:30-7:30 pm. In new paintings, Moses continues to create heroic, gestural abstractions. The exhibition will continue through January 3, 2009.

Ed Moses, long known for his large-scale abstract paintings, has made new work with a sensual sensibility. In pulling the paint downward across the canvas in broad strokes, colors merge and emerge through a predominately blue, green and violet palette. These deeply saturated paintings with rich, velvety surfaces evoke mysterious forces of nature at work. In Sato, Moses blends hues of blue, red and iridescent green in vertical bands like a dark shimmering curtain vibrating with a seductive, powerful energy. In other works such as E-ybab and Diamond Jim, organic forms seem to hover atop the center of the colored ground, as the artist masterfully works the paint materials in a hidden process revealing no evidence of his hand. These paintings at times suggest photo emulsion processes as materials seemingly resist materials or extreme close-ups of DNA mapping color strips.

Ed Moses was born in Long Beach, California, in 1926 and received his BA and MA from the University of California, Los Angeles. His career began in the legendary Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1958; in the same year he exhibited at the Dilexi Gallery in San Francisco. In 1996, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles presented a full-scale retrospective of his career. His work is included in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Menil Foundation, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

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Peter Alexander

Los Angeles artist Peter Alexander opens To Dive For, an exhibition of new paintings at Brian Gross Fine Art. This quintessentially Californian artist, renowned for his paintings, sculptures and installations based on light, continues his explorations working with acrylic and oil on aluminum. The exhibition opens Thursday, November 6 with a reception from 5:30 - 7:30pm and will be on view through January 3, 2009.

Peter Alexander has been investigating properties of light through many years of living in Southern California. He first became recognized for his cast resin sculptures in which he played with translucencies and geometric form in a minimal approach of the 1970's. Subsequently, he experimented with numerous techniques, turning to painting, drawing and lithography in work inspired by the Los Angeles sunsets and the vast array of city lights viewed from a plane landing at LAX at night. In his latest paintings, Alexander creates stunning waterscapes working with acrylic and oil on aluminum. Through many thin layers of translucent color, the artist captures the flickering refraction of sunlight through depths of water.

Peter Alexander was born in Los Angeles in 1939. He received his BFA and MFA from the University of California, at Los Angeles. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad and can be found in almost all major collections, including: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Vancouver Museum of Art, British Columbia, Canada. This is Peter Alexanderâ's sixth exhibition with Brian Gross Fine Art.

Image: Ed Moses

Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5:30-7:30 pm

Brian Gross Fine Art
49 Geary Street, 5th Floor - San Francisco, CA 94108
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:30-5:30, Saturday 11-5
Free admission

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