March 12, 2010 – August 29, 2010

Joshua Mosley: American International marks the premiere of the Philadelphia-based artist’s first new work since his installation dread, which was presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale. The exhibition brings together two of Mosley’s animated video and sculpture installations: International (2010), focusing on the two characters of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek and American entrepreneur George Brown, and A Vue (2004), which looks to the legacy of American botanist and folk hero George Washington Carver. The mixed-media high definition animations are populated by the historical figures they examine, first rendered by Mosley in clay, then 3D scanned, cast in bronze, incorporated into the animation, and ultimately displayed adjacent to the projected videos. Combining the most current technology with the hand-wrought physicality of studio-made objects, International and A Vue innovatively employ video and sculpture to pose nuanced questions about men whose theories and actions have profoundly influenced the American social and political landscape. Mosley’s installations consider the memorialization of these prominent individuals, whose legacies sound ambivalent reverberations when viewed through the lens of contemporary life. Expressing the contemporary zeitgeist with a prescient and suitably sober eye, Mosley’s installations ponder life in America today by looking with criticality and nuance to the lessons of our forefathers and academic heroes.