JD Malat Gallery at Zona Maco 2025

4 - 9 February 2025
  • JD Malat Gallery x Zona Maco 2025

    4th - 9th February 2025

    Booth D112

  • Santiago Parra , (b.1986, Colombia)
    Santiago Parra
    Untitled , 2024
    Acrylic on canvas
    199 x 109 cm

    Santiago Parra

    (b.1986, Colombia)
    Santiago Parra is known for his large, abstract and highly expressive monochromatic paintings. His canvases explore the expressive potential of pure abstraction, creating bold, sculptural brushstrokes that blend the dynamic energy of action painting with the thoughtful precision of automatism.
     
    He studied Literature at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, followed by an art education at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá and later at the Academy of Art University to study Fine Arts in San Francisco where he also learnt about Motion Pictures and Television. This venture proceeded his journey into the Art historical narratives of action painting and the surrealist movement, more notably the study of automatism which both inform his artistic practice.
  • Ed Moses , (b. 1926 - 2018, Los Angeles)
    Ed Moses
    Be Nic, 2008
    Acrylic on canvas
    167.6 x 137.2 cm

    Ed Moses

    (b. 1926 - 2018, Los Angeles)

    Ed Moses was a central figure of Post-War West Coast movement, creating an eclectic body of work which engaged with the varying possibilities of painterly abstraction. Moses' work explores his fascination with the mutability of concepts, transitional spaces and processes. He challenged representational form and experimented with graphite, acrylic and oils by working with unconventional tools, such as mops, hoses and rubber scrapers. Innovative and experimental, Moses' work is instrumental in contemplating and pushing the possibilities of painterly abstraction.

     

    Moses was among the first generation of artists to be shown at L.A.'s legendary Ferus Gallery in 1957, where he formed the "Cool School" of artists - which included Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Edward Kienholz, John Altoon, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston. Since then, his work has been exhibited worldwide with major retrospectives in MOCA Los Angeles in 1996 and The University of California Irvine in 2014. Other prominent collections include, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Whitney Museum of American art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

  • Andy Moses , (b. 1962, Los Angeles)
    Andy Moses, Geomorphology 1107, 2024, Acrylic on canvas over wood panel, 101.6 x 182.9 cm

    Andy Moses

    (b. 1962, Los Angeles)

    Andy Moses Influenced by California culture Andy seeks to investigate colour and form through dynamic abstract works. Attending California Institute of Art in 1979 he was exposed to a plethora of creative methods including performance, film and painting. After graduating from CalArts in 1981, Andy moved to New York City where he worked as an assistant to artist Pat Steir. During this time Andy began developing an approach to process painting incorporating both abstract and representational elements. Andy's oeuvre is marked by his investigation into the physical properties of paint. Exploring the material’s chemical reactions, viscosity interference, and gravity dispersion Andy creates elaborate compositions reminiscent of nature and its forces. 

     

    Participating in his first group show in 1986 at Artist Space entitled ‘selections’ Andy went on to hold a solo show the following year at Annina Nosei Gallery. In 2000, Andy moved back to Los Angeles and was inspired by the colours unique to the Southern California landscape serving to have a profound influence on his chromatic compositions. Continually exploring painting processes and the interrelations between the technical and natural world, Andy exhibits his work both nationally and internationally and is included in a multitude of institutional collections.