Lauren Moses, also a singer and musician, orchestrates vibrant abstract paintings reverberating with movement, energy and feeling. Intuition, impulse, and redirection inform her artistic practice, enabling her to create layered environments that reveal traces of her movements as well as a certain vulnerability and raw beauty.
Her canvases utilize color and its relationships as a way of exploring the internalized complexity of mood and feeling; shape, pattern, and gesture serve as a way of conversing, building an inner dialogue navigating the depths of her being.
Moses refers to her paintings as psychological landscapes in which she searches for self amidst strong external forces. Her interrogation of the relationship between herself and her surrounding environment simultaneously indulges the senses and is an act of defiance. These layered explorations of emotions, grapplings and perspectives on canvas remain ambiguous, much like her motifs that fade into a haze of buzzing color.
However, Moses often draws inspiration from specific sources. She obsessively collects images and objects that captivate and challenge her; personal family photographs, film stills, a piece of jewelry from her beloved grandmother, clothing, a vintage magazine cover… She stows them away until she enters the studio and her visual diary becomes her playground, battleground, and confessional.
Lauren Moses received a BA in History from The University of Virginia and a BFA in Painting & Printmaking with a minor in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Moses' work has been displayed at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Nicolet College in Rhinelander, WI, Healdsburg Center for the Arts in Healdsburg, CA, Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, VA, The FAB Gallery in Richmond, VA, Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO, and Mountain Lake Biological Research Station, University of Virginia in Pembroke, VA.
Moses' work is included in public institutions including The University of Virginia Hospital as well as personal and corporate collections across the country and abroad.
Moses currently lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia.