About the Artist
Marina Moevs was born in Boston, spent her childhood mostly in New Jersey, and lived for years at various times in Rome, Paris, and New York City, before settling in Los Angeles where she currently lives. She studied painting in Paris and New York City and received her MFA from Brooklyn College.
Marina Moevs’ paintings are a sustained meditation on the causes of climate change, where the answers are sought not so much in our ability to pollute, but more fundamentally in our understanding of who we are and how that understanding determines our behavior and our relationship to our planet. The paintings are a call to radical action, where the action is to jettison our current self-understanding in favor of another centered on the awareness of our profound kinship with all, including our planet. The sciences, physics and biology in particular, have been greatly influential in the development of her ideas, as have philosophy, anthropology, non-dualism, and mysticism.
Marina Moevs’ paintings have been exhibited extensively in museums such as the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Autry Museum of the American West, Oakland Museum, Nevada Museum, Carnegie Art Museum, and the Riverside Art Museum, and in galleries such as Koplin Del Rio (Los Angeles now Seattle), Peter Blake Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA), and Louis Stern Fine Arts (Los Angeles). Her paintings have been reviewed and discussed in the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, LA Weekly, ArtScene, Artweek, Art Ltd., Riot Material, and Art and Cake. She has lectured widely in academic and gallery settings about her work, and she has participated in numerous panel discussions. For many years she taught painting and drawing at the university level, including at Loyola Marymount University, the University of Southern California, and at California State University, Fullerton.