
Dwayne Moser
With the sweeping gaze of a nineteenth-century American landscape painting, Dwayne Moser’s Untitled Backdrops, 2006, see the West as a fertile frontier of fantasy and possibility. Likewise, Moser is exacting in his portrayal of particularly pregnant moments of the night and day. However, these backdrops, painted by a team of Warner Brothers professionals, are not inspired by a fanciful sublime; they are instead grounded in the tacky misbehavior of Hollywood celebrities. Each backdrop is still and empty, with visual clues and theatrical lighting that point to the specific sites where Lindsay