An Endless Journey: New work by Ed Moses, Andy Moses, and Kelly Berg is featured in “Family Plot,” opening Thursday in Manhattan Beach
Ed Moses. Photo Three individual painters, and yet a strong underlying bond is at the core of “Family Plot,” the Homeira Goldstein-curated exhibition that highlights recent work by Ed Moses, his son Andy Moses, and Andy’s wife Kelly Berg. The show opens at 6 p.m. this evening at the Manhattan Beach art Center. Ed Moses doesn’t need much of an introduction. He emerged as a viable presence in the L.A. art scene during the latter 1950s along with Billy Al Bengsten, John Altoon, Craig Kauffman, Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz, and several others, many of whom have died or curtailed their creative output. But not Moses. Last year LACMA gave him a show and right now there’s one through June 25 at the William Turner Gallery in Bergamot Station. One thing about artists, though, they don’t tend to retire. As Saul Bellow once told Herbert Gold, “Don’t count any writer out while he’s still alive.” A couple of weeks before her death at age 93, June Wayne was showing off her Charlie Chaplin steps and telling me she still had other projects in mind. At 90, Ed Moses remains consumed by his art. Passion? I ask; Obsession, he replies. And is it still the same as maybe 60 years ago? “It’s always the…
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