Julia Friedman blogs about Ed Moses: Cross-Section at the University of California Irvine University Art Gallery, on view through December 13, 2014.

Friedman writes: "Unlike many of his historical predecessors in the field of abstract painting…  Moses … whose prolific and protean output spans over five decades, delegates the exegesis of his abstract paintings to scholars and critics. Meanwhile, [he] carries on 'responding to the environment,' through manipulation of painterly materials."