Joy Moser

Plant 133

2016

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective painting. The radical move for me was to discover that the real world of landscape lurked behind all that past work. My childhood in the mountains of Pennsylvania pervaded my “way of seeing” and I wanted to investigate and celebrate the infinite variety of tone, color and composition that I found around me. Sky, the structure of trees, mist and water appeared to fill a hunger to look again and again. There was mystery and danger lurking behind the beauty, and my aim was to try to avoid the cliché and explore the infinite structure of the visual landscape. Now I use my camera as a sketchbook and search for images that seem to offer odd structure and “mystery”. I shoot multiple points of view, cull, crop, and mostly discard. The surviving photographs become the catalyst for the paintings and the process is always a mediation between memory and the small image pinned to my easel...

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective pa...

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective pa...

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Abstract painter and printmaker, Laura Fayer, address landscapes and the natural world through an intricate process of layering paint and graphic marks. Deeply influenced by wabi-sab...

Highly detailed patterned abstract composition by Patricia "Patti" Omori Shepp (American, b. 1954). This piece has a repeating pattern across the width, reflected on itself. Texture ...

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3.3M, 1000 REVERSE RIGHT "WATERMELON GRAND" by Rodrigo Spinel Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g. Image size: 30 cm H x 15 cm W Frame size: 43 cm H x 28 cm W x 4 cm D Ivory Wood ...

300K, 100 OBVERSE LEFT "WATERMELON NOTE" by Rodrigo Spinel Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g. Image size: 30 cm H x 15 cm W Frame size: 43 cm H x 28 cm W x 4 cm D Ivory Wood Bro...

Roberto Burle Marx, 2021 (Framed) by Rodrigo Spinel From The Series Terms And Conditions 2.0. Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g. Frame size: 46 cm H x 38 cm W x 6 cm D Image size:...