NEW YORK: THADDEUS MOSLEY

Proximity

April 17, 2025 –May 24, 2025

KARMA
549 West 26th Street
New York, NY

From karmakarma.org:

Karma presents Thaddeus Mosley, Proximity, an exhibition of new sculptures on view from April 17 to May 24 in New York. On June 3, Public Art Fund’s presentation Thaddeus Mosley: Touching the Earth will open at City Hall Park. A career-spanning monograph will be published by Karma Books later this year.

Since he first began sculpting wood in the 1950s, Mosley has worked in his studio seven days a week. The artist discovers his forms in the trees from which his sculptures are hewn. Riffing on the simultaneous rootedness and reach of his sylvan muses, Mosley makes works that at once soar upward and make solid contact with the ground. The sculptures in Proximity, while made in the past two years, are the result of seven cumulative decades of experimentation with chisels, gouges, and mallets. These works evince the continued relevance of the major influences—the modernist sculpture of Constantin Brâncuși and Isamu Noguchi; the incredibly varied masks of Western Africa; jazz greats like Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman—on an ongoing oeuvre whose roots in the twentieth century have blossomed into the twenty-first.

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