Sculpture Forum 56: Thaddeus Mosley at Karma Gallery New York NY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2024
- A look at the Thaddeus Mosley exhibit at Karma Gallery, New York, NY. Discussion Participants: Garth Evans, Jock Ireland, Brandt Junceau, Lydia Gladkova, and Mallary Marks. Recorded on March 30, 2023 (Video and edit by Mallary Marks).
Sculpture Forum; confronting sculpture.
I have launched this project because I feel that there is a need for it, a hunger even.
It is a simple concept; small groups, led by a sculptor, confronting sculptures and articulating the thoughts, feelings, ideas and associations that the works provoke. These conversations will take place in museums, galleries, studios and in front of public works. The ensuing discussion is video taped and made public in such a way that others can respond, extending the exchange. Most of the arts have well-established mechanisms through which the meaning and significance of a particular work is forged yet, too often, sculpture is dealt with as an adjunct to painting. This project aims to give sculptors themselves a place to disclose how they look at sculptures, and along with educators, critics and others, to share how they engage with them and what they consider valuable about them.
Garth Evans, 2018
I LOVE his work. I happened to catch a glimpse of his sculpture a year ago. The images came on TH-cam and they immediately grabbed me. His work, to me, is totally inspiring. Simple materials. Simple tools. Free association of form and imagination. He makes sculpture that an "everyman/everywoman" might be able to make. To me, Thaddeus Mosley allows anyone to participate in the making of art and sculpture. He allows all of us to get out of the spectator seats and join the game. I hope Mosley continues - for several more decades - to make his art. It is a gift to us all! He's an inspiration. Thanks Mr. Mosley for giving us your gifts. And thanks Sculpture Forum for posting this on TH-cam.
Thank you for bringing this interesting artist to us. I have done quite a few carved wood figures heavily influenced by triabl work, so it was a pleasant surprise to see high art that embraced this mode of sculpture again. I struggled at first to put my reaction to them into language. Totemic was my first thought as someone also mentioned.. They are for the most part larger than humans, but not that much larger and mostly taller than wide so that there is a feeling of the figurative at first. But the way the individual elements are selected and joined in each seems an almost deliberate turn away from the figurative after the first impression. The artist does not seem to have a "vocabulary" of repeated elements. The elements of each sculpture are unique and speak more of the original pieces of wood than of transformed elements shaped by the sculptor's previous experience. There are very few repeating elements, save the stacked "flying saucers" in a few sculptures that seem straight out of the necks of tribal figures. He is not imposing something on the material but acting as a middlle man between what the trees have done and what the viewer brings to the experience. They are a little disconcerting as they say at first human figure but then violate our expectations, as good art often does.
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Creatures of the forest
These wood creatures are alive.