oil paintings

Moses’ works in oil, with paint & oil stick on paper and canvas are often more formal or choreographed than the watercolors. The physicality of the material lends itself to constructed compositions which tend to move outward, employing an allover compositional strategy. With the works on canvas Moses has been slowly increasing the scale, reacting to the architectural proportions of the stretcher frames these works often have a more geometric idiom. All the oil paintings focus closely on the distribution of color, as a tool to create rhythm and balance. Moses observes and responds to the effect the colors have on one another within an arrangement and their ability to produce a complex poetic language removed from formal concerns.