Artist Talk: Thaddeus Mosely
at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Saturday May 13, 2023 at 1:30 pm
Nasher Sculpture Center
2001 Flora Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
For six decades, Thaddeus Mosley has taken felled trees near his home in Pittsburgh and transformed them into inventive abstract forms. The Nasher’s presentation of abstract walnut sculptures, created from 2015 onward, rewards close looking. The range and expertise of Mosley’s woodworking techniques—carving, chiseling, and joining—are revealed as light shimmers along each work’s surface. From a distance, they stand together and unlock shapeshifting experiences before the eye. Mosley describes his compositional experimentation as the pursuit of presence, “the alchemy of turning something neutral into something alive.”
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