On view April 30 - June 16, 2018
“Actually I love to paint. I’m the Hungry Ghost. There’s a glow as if the painting is imbued with some energy field, something primordial that is responsive to my obsession – the obsession of the Hungry Ghost.” - Ed Moses, Venice Beach, CA. (2013)
albertz benda is honored to present Ed Moses: Diamond Jim focusing on the artist’s work on canvas of the past three decades. This exhibit follows Moses’s first ever East Coast survey, Painting as Process 1951-1999, at albertz benda, New York (2016) and California Dreaming: Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, & Ed Ruscha curated by Thomas Krens for the New Britain Museum of American Art, CT (2017). Diamond Jim comprises key series from this period including Whiplines, Crackle, Scrapers, and Magma.
