Night Cloud #11, Joy Moser
Teachers College, Columbia University to Exhibit Abstract Sky-scapes by Faculty Member Joy Moser
WHAT:
“Night Clouds,” an Exhibit of Abstract Paintings of the Natural World
WHO:
Joy Moser, Artist and Adjunct Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
WHEN:
September 5-28
Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.;
Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
WHERE:
Teachers College, Columbia University
Macy Gallery
4th Floor, Macy Hall (Room 444)
120th and Broadway, New York City
(Night Cloud #21, Joy Moser)
BACKGROUND: Joy Moser, a painter and longtime adjunct professor at Teachers College, started out as an abstract painter, switched for a time to more naturalistic landscapes, and with the “Night Clouds” exhibit at Teachers College in September, returns to abstraction. “Landscapes are tricky,” Moser says. “If you’re not careful, you can end up painting sappy calendar pictures. What I wanted was the mystery – to take you someplace you want to go but can’t quite figure out. So I’m excited to be going back to abstraction.”
Moser’s sky-scapes are anything but sappy. Her clouds are massive, unknown life forms caught in rare close-ups, in motion against often ominous blues. Like an eclipse, you can imagine them causing people across different states and countries to stop on street corners to look up, eyes shaded, with a mixture of awe and dread.
“Painting in general, and landscape in particular, has a kind of universality,” says Moser, who came to TC in 1992 at the request of faculty member Judith Burton to teach for a single semester and never left. “Unlike books or film, they don’t need translation. And with all the terrible stuff going on in the world, that’s a good thing.”
Admission to the exhibition is free of charge
