September 2022
Thaddeus Mosley: Forest at Art + Practice
Thaddeus Mosley is 96 and still as prolific as ever. Using fallen trees found in Pittsburgh, where he lives and works, Mosley employs hand tools to carve abstract wooden forms that intricately notch and wedge into each other. The final sculptures defy gravity, elegantly swooping skyward, pocked by the delicate patterning of his chisel. These marks swirl and dance across the wooden surfaces, echoing wood grain as much as the intricate biology of a thumbprint. At the current presentation at…
Find out more »Justen LeRoy at Art + Practice
Justen LeRoy’s Lay Me Down in Praise is a three-channel video work that melds musicality with expansive, black-and-white footage of Black individuals paired with spanning imagery of natural occurrences — volcanos, cliff sides, flowing waterfalls. In one poignant scene, a man in a black suit slowly spins in circles in the center video channel as his arms begin to splay out in dancerly arcs. Meanwhile, an eye of a storm comes into focus on the third channel, the swirling movement…
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