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Shana Nys Dambrot
Andy Moses makes paintings that construct themselves
through contradictions.The movement one can sense across
their surfaces,the elusive assertion and recession of
content,is that of a perpetual shift between possibilities.Is
it desert or ocean?Mountains or sky?Above or below?These
questions may not matter as much as the simple realization
that either answer could be equally true.That significant
formal correspondences exist between widely variant
segments of the natural world.That the microcosmic and
macrocosmic interlock at every point.That the universe
can be distilled into essential forms,and that these
forms also contain emotional and spiritual resonance.This
is how lushly finished chromatic fields come to express
human psychological complexity.Moses builds on the freedoms
won by abstract expressionism to deal directly in the
currency of consciousness,yet he is also seduced by
the power of nature ’s forms to support the same
discourse,welcoming them back into the compositions.
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