611
72h x 48w in
Oil on linen
Coming soon
Kathy Moss (American b. 1955) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Carefully attuned to the natural world, Moss leaves no material unused in her studio. She prepares her own gesso and medium from a unique recipe she acquired during her studies at The New York Studio School where she was honored as a Merit Scholar for Painting. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and is included in notable public collections such as the U.S. Department of State, Saks Fifth Avenue, General Electric, The Equitable Collection, and the Carlyle Hotel in New York.
Moss is a formal painter, drawing from a deep engagement with materials, scale, surface, and composition. Through a rigorous process of delicate paint applications layered over chalk-and-oil grounds, her paintings bridge the conceptual and representational, revealing a hidden narrative that goes far beyond the minimal subject matter and expert use of negative space. Drawn to botanicals for their emotive and symbolic potential, Moss often employs images of flowers, seed pods, skeletons of pinecones and thistles as stand-ins for figures. The mysteriousness and suggestiveness of the marks we take at first blush to be the subject of a painting, are in fact beards for addressing different aspects of the human condition, dramatizing the forces of relationships: push, pull, need, love, power, isolation.
“In my practice art is a wordless thing, deeper than words can convey. I am drawn to painting because I believe it is the deepest thing I can do. I just want to make something beautiful, something evocative, something not overtly narrative. My goal is to make art that is transcendent, poetic, mysterious, that draws the viewer in and invites them to have their own experience.” - Kathy Moss
Education
1976 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
1991 New York Studio School, New York, NY
Teaching
2013 Spring Semester Part Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design
2012 Summer Semester Part Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design
Awards and Honors
2016 October Creative Residency, Arteles Oy, Haukijarvi, Finland
1991 Merit Scholar for Painting New York Studio School, New York, NY
Public Collections
Carlyle Hotel, New York, NY
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
State Department of the United States of America, United States
Embassy, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Embassy, United Arab Emirates
Phillip Morris, New York, NY
The Equitable Collection, New York, NY
General Electric, New York, NY
Exhibitions
2026
Pryor Fine Art, Solo Show
2025
IN BLOOM, Pryor Fine Art, Atlanta
2024
Aperto Fine Art, Bridgton, ME
Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
Pryor Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2023
Aperto Fine Art, Bridgton, ME
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2022
Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT
Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
2021
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Kathy Moss and Tony Foster, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2020
Threnody, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2018
Evolution, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT
Kathy Moss, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2016
Kathy Moss, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2013
Secret/Garden, PS 209, Stone Ridge, NY
2009
CONTINUUM, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
2006
Solstice, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Focal Point, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004
Narrative Abstraction, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
Constant Aesthetic, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Coda, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
Constant Aesthetic, 2003 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO (solo)
Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
2002
Luminous Nature, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (solo)
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID (solo)
Two Person Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Surface Fragments, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000
Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1999
O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1995
Frameworks, New York, NY (solo)
1992
Cleveland Editions, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
Literature
2006
A Summer Sampler of Refined Abstraction, Maureen Mullarkey, THE NEW YORK SUN, 07/13
2003
A Clean Palette, Alice Leccese Powers, HOME & DESIGN, Spring 2004
Painter Kathy Moss: Berries..., Elizabeth Covington, THE TELLURIDE WATCH, July 11-14,
Painter Kathy Moss’; Obsession with Form & Light, Susan Viebrock, TELLURIDE DAILY
PLANET, July 11, 2003
2002
Ambitious Moves, Michael Paglia, ARTNEWS, January, 2002
Reverberations & Echoes, Robert L. Pincus, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE, April 18, 2002
2000
Kathy Moss at Stephen Haller Gallery, Jonathan Goodman, ART IN AMERICA, October 2000
1999
Field of Vision, Peter Plagens, HOUSE & GARDEN, November 1999
Decoding the Fictions..., Cate McQuaid, THE BOSTON GLOBE, June 24, 1999
Kathy Moss, J. Bowyer Bell, REVIEW, April 1, 1999
