Peter Frank reviews the exhibition Ed Moses & Larry Poons: The Language of Paint at William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, on view through July 19, 2014.

Frank writes: "Poons and Moses do not simply employ paint, they explore paint, manipulating the possibilities and peculiarities of acrylic every which way. Poons’ engagement with paint, initially addressing the strictures of geometric composition, has been famously extravagant for the bulk of his career; Moses’ has not been quite so lavish, but, if anything, has been even more formally expansive and consistently surprising. The fortuitous dialogue between the two is the subject of their new joint survey show … which juxtaposes roughly a dozen works by both artists going back to the 1970s."