Brian Moss
Senior Lecturer of Studio Arts, College of Communication and Fine Arts | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
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Brian C. Moss earned a BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and an MFA in Photography from CalArts in Valencia, California and has taught throughout Los Angeles since 1997. He began teaching photography at LMU in 1998 and currently serves on the Faculty Senate, representing contingent faculty since 2014, the inaugural year of their inclusion in the Senate. His varied and wide-ranging practice includes documentary photography, multi-media installations, public art and collaborative community-based art projects. Through these projects, Moss addresses both the personal and the social, poetically embedding each in the other through their juxtaposition. In so doing, he creates two- and three-dimensional objects that are simultaneously banal and beautiful. Moss makes installations that ask viewers to question the ways that perception and visual media structure and interrelate all facets of physical and emotional experience. His work has been widely exhibited, including solo shows at the MGSU Peacock Gallery in Cochran Gerogia and Covenant College in Lookout Mountain Georgia, PØST in Los Angeles, Whittier College, Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, Cue Art Foundation in New York, Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, North Carolina, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington and the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia. To create his own work and for community-based and public art projects, Moss has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Olson Color Expansions, Kodak and Astra-Zeneca.
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