Telluride Gallery of Fine Art exhibits paintings and digital pigment prints by Ed Moses Zip #8. TELLURIDE, CO .- Saving the Best for Last, an exhibition of 24 paintings and six digital pigment prints by the late artist Ed Moses, opened at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art December 15, 2020 through February 6, 2021. Online viewing is available at telluridegallery.com. This collection of work includes a group of his most recent acrylic paintings, as well as digital prints provided by Patricia Correia Projects. It is the only 2020 solo show of Ed Moses work. Even in his 9th decade, Southern California native Ed Moses spent most days in his Venice studio. In one of his final interviews, he told Los Angeles Times reporter Deborah Vankin You caught me on a good day! Pointing to freshly painted canvases drying in the sun, he explained, These are all self-portraits. These paintings have history, action - scars and blemishes, scratches and imperfections. These are me. She described the nonagenarians paint-covered wheelchair and worn Birkenstocks, and the way he zipped across the courtyard that joined the studio to his house. These parallel accounts give us a portrait of the artist Ed Moses in his later days: limitlessly energetic, yet deeply reflective. Having served as a surgical technician in WWII, Moses came to painting after washing out of a pre-med program at Long Beach City College. In 1949 he enrolled at UCLA where he met Walter Hopps of the Ferus Gallery. He spent several years working towards his MFA, finally graduating in 1959. Though often at odds with the faculty, he impressed Hopps to such a degree as to have his thesis exhibition staged at Ferus gallery. He was in good company there, showing alongside Al Bengston, Llyn Foulkes, John Altoon, Kenneth Price, and Wallace Berman. It cemented his place in LAs Cool School, a movement of eccentric artists which defined the nascent LA art scene.