“I work totally from memory, with each piece developing on its own. The surprise of the finished piece can recall a beach on Long Island Sound, an island in the San Juans or a well-traveled road in the Northwest. At another level it is clear that I am trying to hold/reflect the lost moment, break through the fence of time and reclaim what was given to me as a child on a first-time basis. At its best the final statement conveys a distilled sensation of time.”

Childhood experiences of nature as manifest in woods, water and mountains are a continued source of inspiration for Ben Frank Moss’s work. “My work is often generated out of a distant memory of a physical setting that becomes a metaphor for a personal truth.”

Born in Philadelphia, Moss received his BA from Whitworth College in Spokane, WA, and his MFA from Boston University. He is currently the George Frederick Jewett Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College where he assumed the chairmanship of the department in 1988 after teaching for 13 years in the MFA program at the University of Iowa. Prior to his tenure at Iowa he was the Director of the MFA and Visiting Critics program at Fort Wright College in Spokane, and founded and was the acting Dean of the Spokane Studio School. Moss has been represented by the Kraushaar Galleries in New York, the Pepper Gallery in Boston, the Susan Conway Gallery in Washington, DC and the Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle, among others.

He has had over 57 solo exhibitions, 361 group shows, has been the recipient of many awards, including The Charles Loring Elliot Award & Medal for Drawing, and his work is in over 375 private and 48 public collections, including The National Academy of Design and The Hood Museum.

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