American Visionary Art Museum

The Real and the Surreal in the Work of Christopher Moses

A child of postwar Southern California, Chris Moses began at an early age to pursue a form of expression which was true to his view of the world.

He was born with an eye condition which left him cursed with the gift of double vision, a state which only heightened his keen awareness of the dynamism of the natural and physical worlds. Moses describes as a turning point in his young life the instant in which a bird flew in front of him on an otherwise lackluster afternoon.