ED MOSES
The Language of Paint: Selected Works
LARRY POONS
WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY BERGAMOT STATION ARTS CENTER 2525 MICHIGAN AVE., E-1 SANTA MONICA, CA 90404 P 310-453-0909 F 310-453-0908 www.williamturnergallery.com
Catalog A - Larry Poons The William Turner Gallery is pleased to present a joint exhibition of paintings from two legendary American artists, Ed Moses and Larry Poons. Living on opposite coasts, Ed Moses and Larry Poons have worked in the realm of abstraction for the last six decades, each producing a unique and innovative oeuvre, driven by experimentation, process, color and materiality. These two quintessentially iconoclastic painters present interesting parallels due to their their career-long disregard for prevailing styles, their similarity of approach and their passionate pursuit of the possibilities of paint. Moses and Poons exemplify spontaneous approaches to the process of painting, in careers that have spanned more than half a century. They have relentlessly pushed the potentials of the medium, embracing artistic practices that require a willful immersion into the chaos of the moment. For each artist, these paintings begin as journeys into the unknown and end as records of the trails they blazed on their way back out. Born in Long Beach, CA in 1926, Ed Moses has been a pivotal figure in the Los Angeles art scene since the 1950s, when he was part of the original stable of artists at the Ferus Gallery. Over the past six decades, Moses has been able to resist categorization into any one genre. His process is consistently experimental - he changes materials regularly and doesn’t subscribe to any particular style, save for one - reinvention. Moses’ work is not bound by genre or movement – rather, it is fueled by a fascination with process and innovation. About his work Moses says, “The unpredictability is what I like to look at.” Ed Moses has been the subject of a major retrospective at MOCA Los Angeles and his work is in the permanent collections of some of the most prominent cultural institutions including the Corcoran Gallery, Hammer Museum, SF MoMA, Whitney Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Larry Poons was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1937. He originally studied music in Boston during the late 1950s, shifting his focus to painting a few years later. Poons gained favor during the 1960s within the OpArt movement, painting rhythmic patterns of circles and ovals on brightly colored backgrounds. By the mid sixties, however, he had moved away from this style toward looser and more abstract works, experimenting with pouring and throwing paint. In Poons’ recent works, traces of his musical training can be detected– symphonies of color race across the surfaces of his canvases, bewildering the senses. There is an intense exchange happening on these surfaces, between painter and paint, paint and light, light and color. According to Poons, “They are all in the nature of the thing ... of anything ... of everything.”
Forlorn Patrol, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 66 3/8 x 104 inches
Untitled, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 67 1/4 x 81 3/4 inches
Back Road Boy, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 68 1/4 x 70 1/4 inches
Untitled, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 67 x 102 1/4 inches
Untitled, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 66 1/2 x 72 inches
Diamond Jim, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 76 1/2 x 102 inches
Untitled, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 71 x 86 1/2 inches
Untitled, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 67 3/4 x 100 inches
Oblique Reunion, 2006, 68 x 79 inches
Fear to Reminisce, acrylic on canvas, 67 1/8 x 81 inches
Untitled, 1989, acrylic on canvas, 38 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
Larry Poons working on Rogue Stadium (Barcelona 1987)
Rogue Stadium, 1987, acrylic on canvas, 84 x 94 inches
Log Train, 1985, acrylic on canvas, 78 1/4 x 90 inches
Untitled, 1981, acrylic on canvas, 80 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches
Untitled, 1979, acrylic on canvas, 68 1/8 x19 inches
Untitled (79 F-3), 1979, acrylic on canvas, 93 1/2 x 35 inches
Untitled (78 B-4), 1978, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 32 1/2 inches
Untitled, 1975, acrylic on canvas, 71 x 55 1/2 inches
Grumble Blues, 1975, acrylic on canvas, 112 x 56 inches
Untitled, 1974, acrylic on canvas, 30 1/8 x 13 7/8 inches
LARRY POONS CV CHRONOLOGY: 1937 Born Tokyo, Japan 1955-57 Studied at the New England Conservatory of Music 1959 Studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts 1966 Subject of film Manual of Arms, produced by Hollis Frampton 1968 Instructor, Bennington College, Vermont 1969 Visiting Faculty, New York Studio School, NY 1970 Subject of film with Frank Stella 1971-72 Instructor, Cooper Union, New York, NY 1976 Guest Lecturer, Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1984 Subject of film Painters Painting: A Contested History 1940-1970, produced by Emile di Antonio and Mitch Tuchman Guest Lecturer, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada 1985 In Conversation with R. H. Love, Chicago, IL 1988 Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award Guest Lecturer, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 1989 Guest Lecturer, Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada 1992 Guest Lecturer, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL Juror, Ohio State Fair Guest Lecturer, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 1993 Guest Lecturer, Union College, Schenectady, NY 1994 Guest Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1998 Panel discussion, Tufts University, Medford, MA 1999 Subject of documentary film Larry Poons, produced by ART/New York Subject of Larry Poons: on making art, Video-recording, produced by Paul Tschinkel, Inner-Tube Video, New York, NY 2000 Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Guest Lecturer, Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Johnstown, NY Larry Poons in Dialogue with Jason Andrew, Artist Talk on Art Panel Series, New York, NY Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 2001 Subject of film Larry Poons: His Endless Creativity, produced by Bill Page 2002 Guest Lecturer, Winchester School, Hampshire, England In Conversation with Tim Marlow, London, England 2004 Artist Talk on Art Panel Series, Art Students League, New York Larry Poons and the Course of Abstract Painting, Art in America hosted panel discussion with William C. Agee, Robert C. Morgan,& Karen Wilkin in conversation with Larry Poons, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Featured in film documentary Who Gets to Call it Art produced by Peter Rosen 2006 Guest Lecturer, New York Studio School, New York, NY Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Resides in New York, currently teaches at the Art Students League, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2013 Danese and Loretta Howard Gallery (joint exhibition), New York, NY Larry Poons: Legendary, Contrary Selected Paintings 1975-2012, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA 2012 Mark Borghi Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL 2011 Danese, New York, NY Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY SAGG, New Berlin, NY 2010 Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY Loretta Howard, New York, NY 2009 Danese, New York, NY 2008 Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY Danese, New York, NY Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL 2005 Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK 2002 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK 2001 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY 2000 Galeria Metta, Madrid, Spain Theo Waddington Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Perrella Gallery, Johnstown, NY 1998 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY 1997 Art in Public, Geneva, Switzerland Larry Evans/James Willis and Fredrick Spatt Gallery, San Jose, CA Claudia Carr Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA 1995 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY 1994 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA 1993 University of Miami, Miami, FL
1992 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Berlin, Germany Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY 1991 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA Gallerias Afinsa-Lagasca and Afinsa-Almirante, Madrid, Spain Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX 1990 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Salander-O'Reillly Galleries, New York, NY 1989 Gallery One, Toronto, Canada Galerie Montaigne, Paris, France 1988 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Gallery One, Toronto, Canada 1985 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY 1984 Gallery One, Toronto, Canada 1983 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY 1982 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX Gallery One, Toronto, Canada Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, Canada Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1981 Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Islands, FL Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, WA Gallery One, Toronto, Canada 1980 Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Gallery One, Toronto, Canada Galerie Artline, The Hague, The Netherlands Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Gallery One, Toronto, Canada 1979 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany Amerika Haus, Hannover, Germany Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS 1978 Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbour Islands, FL M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY 1977 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY Watson/de Nagy, Houston, TX Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1976 David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada Daniel Templon, Paris, France M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY 1975 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland 1974 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada Galerie La Bertesca, Dusseldorf, Germany Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1973 Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY 1972 Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1971 Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY Kasmin Ltd., London, UK 1970 Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY 1968 Kasmin Ltd., London, UK Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY 1967 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY 1965 Green Gallery, New York, NY 1964 Green Gallery, New York, NY 1963 Green Gallery, New York, NY
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