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.