Susan Moss (b. 1944), "Aqua Peace," 1994-2007, Oil on linen, 72.25" H x 60.25" W

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• Lot Description

  Susan Moss
  (b. 1944)
  "Aqua Peace," 1994-2007
  Oil on linen
  Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed verso: Susan Moss / For Bett Moss / War and Peace
  72.25" H x 60.25" W
  Other Notes: Susan Moss (b. 1944) was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from the University of Nevada with Honors in Art and Psychology.
  
  After teaching Art at Cerro Cosa College, she entered the Otis Art Institute in the field of Painting and Printmaking for three years. Moss established her own Art Studio in 1971 and began showing her large spray paintings in 1973 at Gallery 707 on La Cienega and a group show at the Brand Library Art Center with Martha Alf, Gloria Kisch, Gwen Murrell, Diana Hobson, and Virginia Gray, establishing life-long friendships with these women artists.
  
  Moss's first exhibition in New York took place in 1977 at the David Findlay Gallery on Madison Avenue. The show of early Rhoplex paintings and early Earthslide drawings sold out, except for one painting. This was followed by the iBlack Foresti series which she painted for her Grandparents, Edith and Richard Hecht who died of starvation and Typhus in the Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen just two weeks before the camp was liberated by British troops. The series was shown in 1979 at Lonny Gans Gallery in Nicholas Wilderis gallery space when he decamped for New York. The show was a sensation, garnering reviews in Arts magazine by David S. Rubin, and was collected by the esteemed collector Robert A. Rowan
  
  In 1980 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gave her a show in their new Artistis Gallery in Fort Mason, the start of a 31- year relationship of showing, renting, and selling her Art. That year she also had a show of 30 crayon drawings at Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Moss switched her painting medium to oil in 1980 but continued her Earthslide drawings. Moss has now 50 painting years under her belt, her Collectors now numer over 500, including five Museums: LACMA, Skirball, Laguna Art Museum, Buck Collection of California Art at UC Irvine, and the Lilley Museum at the University of Nevada. Recent shows include galleries in Florida and Tuscany, Italy.

  Condition

  Visual: Overall good condition. Craquelure scattered throughout.
  
  Blacklight: No evidence of restoration.
  
  Unframed

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