Ed Moses has been painting for over 60 years. His was the second show at the now infamous Ferus Gallery in L.A., but his style of painting and drawing made him an anomaly there. His philosophy: “I asked myself one day, ‘What are you doing, Ed? Are you making pretty pictures? Are you making art?’ I said, ‘No, I’m not interested in art, and I’m not interested in making pretty pictures,’ but I am interested in discovering pictorial images that I hadn’t thought of before, so I invent ideas as I proceed that allows discoveries with the paint in whatever the situation is. One day, I noticed caterpillars, and as they traversed along the concrete, they would leave tracks where they’d been, so I like the idea that a brush could leave a track where it was, and therefore it would be like me tracking where I’ve been and where I’m going.”
Learn more about Ed Moses here. See “Ed Moses: Drawings from the 1960s and ’70s” at LACMA through August 2nd. Ticket information and a video here.
