Kathy Moss

Biography

Kathy Moss - Artists - Pryor Fine Art

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 

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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

 

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