A passion for traveling and shooting landscape photography fuels the paintings and monotypes by Santa Fe-based artist Forrest Moses. Born 1934 in Virginia, he earned his BFA from Washington and Lee University in 1956 and served as a naval officer in the Philippines, Japan, and other Far East destinations, which had a strong visual and philosophical influence on him.He discovered art and architecture the year he spent in Europe and formalized his education in graduate school at Pratt Institute in New York. Moses designed interiors, furniture, and ceramics in Houston before turning to full-time painting. In 1965 he moved to the Monterey Peninsula in California, an area rich with rollicking hills, crashing waves, hushed forests, and a peaceful nature — perfect for his preferred isolation and routine.Painting became Moses' exercise in contemplating of nature and unfolding truth by observation. His emphasis on land and sea teetered on their fragile line of meeting.Seeking a place in the sun, he relocated to Santa Fe, N.M., where he has been working since 1969.Moses' resumé includes more than 40 solo exhibitions at galleries, universities, and museums in Seattle, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Denver, Albuquerque, Austin, and abroad. He also has participated in numerous group and invitational shows, lectured and taught, and engaged in printmaking.Moses records with a camera and translates images into works in oil, monotype and watercolor. He is also well known for floral images of Iris and figure drawings.His recent landscape monotypes tap the same subject as the larger, more formal oil paintings. Looser in line and color, the monotypes are less objective but retain image identity. In this process, he brushes, pushes, wipes, scratches, thins, and otherwise manipulates etching ink on a Plexiglas plate and creates one unique image from each transfer of the ink to paper on a large etching press. Moses uses the monotype to interpret land images as well as flower and figure. All works are untitled. Moses' work is held in private, public, and corporate collections worldwide.Solo Exhibitions1961 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.1972 Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, TexasMuseum of Fine Arts, Danville, Va.Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, N.M.Illinois State University, Normal, Ill.1980 The Art Center, Waco, TexasWatson/de Nagy & Company1981 Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, S.C.1984 St. John's College, Santa Fe, N.M.Peregrine Press, Dallas, TexasSheldon Memorial Museum, Gallery, Lincoln, Neb.Selected Group Exhibitions1961 Pratt Institute, New York, N.Y.1964 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TexasBeaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas1966 Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, Calif.1972 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, N.M.1974 Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, TexasTyler Museum, Tyler, TexasBeaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TexasMemorial Museum, San Antonio, TexasTwelve from New Mexico, traveling exhibition, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, Texas1975 Contemporary Landscape Painting, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK1976 Roswell Museum, Roswell, N.M.Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, N.M.Arco Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles1978 The Landscape: Different Points of View, Wave Hill, New York, N.Y.1979 Art of Paper, '79, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, N.C.1980 New York Realists '80, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkhill, N.Y.Monotypes, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, N.Y.1981 University of Houston, TexasSan Antonio Museum of Art, Texas1982 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Neb.1983 Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Mo.Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, Wyo.Salina Art Center, Salina, KansasSioux City Arts Center, Sioux City, IowaAbilene Fine Arts MuseumConnecticut College, New London, Conn.American Artists as Printmakers, 23rd National Print Invitational Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N,Y,1984 Contemporary Western Landscape, Museum of Art of the American West, Houston, TexasContemporary American Monotypes, Egyp Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va.1987 Paper Works II, McNay Art Museum, Austin, Texas1991 Art Dumonde, Tokyo, JapanCrane Art, Ikebukuro and Tokyo, JapanGalerie Miyabe, Fukuoka, JapanCrane Art, Nagoya, JapanGalerie Miyabe, Okinawa, JapanWorld Collection, Yokohama, JapanDamian Art, Sapporo and Tokyo, Japan1992-94 Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan (traveling exhibit)