MILTON MOSS

JANUARY 30TH - MARCH 14TH

ARTIST RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JANUARY 30TH, 6–8 PM

This special exhibition marks domicile’s first presentation of an out-of-town guest artist, featuring a retrospective of the late Milton Moss. Presented by his daughter, Seattle-based Rebecca Moss, alongside the extended Moss family, the exhibition brings Moss’s work back into public view for the first time in over 20 years.

Accompanying the exhibition is a curated selection of ceramics by Jeffrey Fields, Juliet Roger, Jessica O’Brien, and Caroline Katz.

ABOUT MILTON MOSS

Born in New York City in 1912, Milton Moss was classically trained as a violinist and studied art at Cooper Union and L’École de Beaux Arts in Paris. He joined the army at the onset of World War II, serving as a violinist in the Army band accompanying General Omar Nelson Bradley in Europe. After the war, he stayed in France to continue studying painting, a period that proved critical in the influences Moss carried into his art over the following decades.

Moss first started showing his paintings after returning to the United States in 1961, with representation at Harbor Gallery in Long Island. Later that year, he broke into the Madison Avenue art scene in New York with a solo show at New Masters Gallery. He would go on to showcase his work in more than 40 individual and group exhibitions, predominantly in Manhattan, as well as in galleries and museums across the United States and Europe, including Chase Contemporary, Harry Salpeter Gallery, and the Wickersham Gallery in Manhattan, as well as by the Galerie de drie Hendricken in Amsterdam.

Moss’s work has shown in group exhibitions alongside other notable 20th century painters associated with American Modernism including Joseph Stella, Frank Kleinholz, Jules Pascin, August Mosca, David Burliuk, and Harold Hollingsworth. By the 1980s, his paintings had also been acquired by several museums, including the Miami Museum of Modern Art, the Phoenix Museum of Fine Art, the Houston Museum, Georgia Museum of Fine Arts in Athens, and the Alfred Khonri Memorial Collection.

Often defined by his use of light with layered color, Milton Moss’s paintings were described by art critics as reminiscent of English Romantic painter William Turner, and the French artists Claude Monet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Henri Matisse, who Moss met while studying art in Paris, was also among his key influences.

"There is a filmy effervescent feeling,” to his work, a critic for ArtNet wrote. In a 1966 preview of a new show by Moss, critic Jeanne Paris noted how his use of realism took cues from impressionism and surrealism, as well as his background as a violinist.

As a violinist, classical and jazz music were entwined with his art throughout his career, and lent a lyrical, and at times rhythmic quality created through brush stroke and in his use of wet layers of paint. “This,” one critic wrote, “creates canvases which can be read measure to measure.”

His work was also inspired by the places he lived and traveled, from European architecture and landscapes to the streets of San Miguel de Allende. In the early 1990s, Moss moved to Florida and opened Katem gallery, named after his youngest daughter, in the Miami Design District.

ON DISPLAY

MILTON MOSS

$6,000

14 x 13 x 13 cm

JESSICA O'BRIEN

$320

Bell Jar 3

ceramic

15 x 13 x 13 cm

JESSICA O'BRIEN

$320

Bell Jar 2

ceramic

14 x 14 x 14 cm

JESSICA O'BRIEN

$320

Hat Jar 2

ceramic

12 x 15 x 12 cm

JESSICA O'BRIEN

$320

Hat Jar

ceramic

13 x 11 x 11 cm

JEFFREY FIELDS

$795

Reverse Seamed Twist Vessel

matte black glaze over recycled clay

7 x 12 x 9 inches

JEFFREY FIELDS

$595

Floral Vase

matte black glaze over recylced clay

8 inches square x 13 inch

JEFFREY FIELDS

$795

Reverse Seamed Stacked Vessel

matte black glaze over recycled clay

17 x 12 x 9 inches

GALLERY + DESIGN 4116 EAST MADISON ST SEATTLE, WA 98112 WED-Sat 12-5pm

MILTON MOSS: A LONG RETURN

JANUARY 30TH - MARCH 14TH

ABOUT MILTON MOSS

ON DISPLAY

PAINTINGS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

CERAMICS

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JEFFREY FIELDS

JEFFREY FIELDS

JEFFREY FIELDS

GALLERY + DESIGN 4116 EAST MADISON ST SEATTLE, WA 98112 WED-Sat 12-5pm

MILTON MOSS: A LONG RETURN

JANUARY 30TH - MARCH 14TH

ABOUT MILTON MOSS

ON DISPLAY

PAINTINGS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

MILTON MOSS

CERAMICS

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JESSICA O'BRIEN

JEFFREY FIELDS

JEFFREY FIELDS

JEFFREY FIELDS

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