Ed Moses (artist)

Edward Moses ( born 1926 in Long Beach, California, USA, lives in Venice, California ) is a contemporary American abstract painter and graphic artist.

Life and work

Ed Moses studied from 1955 to 1958 at the University of California. After his studies he worked for a time as a draftsman in an aircraft factory.

From 1975 to 1976 he taught at the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1976 he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1980 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Ed Moses is an experimental, constantly changing and evolving artist. It is characteristic of his abstract Technique that he rarely works with a brush or brush, but stains, knife techniques and splash water uses, with canvas, polyester and powder paint works and invests his lines with adhesive tapes.

Moses was one of the abstract artist 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 was with four images participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department Idea Idea / light.