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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 | Levent OZLER
SAIC Alumnus Joshua Mosley at Venice Biennale
Joshua Mosley, an alumnus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 1996; MFA 1998), is presently showing his digital art work, dread , at the Venice Biennale's 52nd International Art Exhibition. He was selected to show in the Padiglione Italia at the Giardini by the Biennale's first director from the United States, Robert Storr. Storr, also an alumnus of the School of the Art Institute (MFA 1978), served as a senior curator in the Museum of Modern Art.
Mosley is represented by Chicago dealer Donald Young, who is showing his work at Art Basel, which opened June 12.
Mosley studied Painting and Drawing, Art and Technology, and Film and Video at SAIC. "Josh Mosley was always an innovator, pushing the boundaries of what was possible in animation," says Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty at SAIC. "The School curriculum fit his needs because he wanted to work across disciplines; he found faculty who supported him with a mixture of technical, philosophical, and theoretical knowledge. The School gave him permission to be an artist, an intellectual, and a technology wizard all at once, allowing him to combine forms and levels of reality, without feeling he had to choose between them." Dread is a mixed media animation featuring a discussion about the nature of things between the philosophers Blaise Pascal and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as they stroll through an idyllic forest. When they are not able to resolve their views, events take a darker turn. Mosley used stop-motion photography and 3D-scanned clay sculptures in his animation piece. His installation exhibits both the sculptures and a 6-minute video projection of the animation project. The animation is set to an original score composed by the artist. Mosley's works, A Vue (2004) and Beyrouth (2001), are part of the Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection. He has exhibited at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Donald Young Gallery in Chicago, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
He is a currently Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design and a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He is a recipient of the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship.
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