Join Philadelphia-based artist Joshua Mosley as he screens and discusses his new animated video and sculpture installation International— his first new work since dread, which debuted at the 2007 Venice Biennale. International premieres at the IMA in the exhibition Joshua Mosley: American International, shown together with his 2004 work A Vue. Comprising mixed-media animations displayed alongside small scale bronze sculptures, both installations consider the memorialization of prominent individuals whose legacies sound ambivalent reverberations when viewed through the lens of contemporary life. A Vue chronicles a monument to American botanist George Washington Carver, while International imagines a dialogue between Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek and American builder and philanthropist George R. Brown. Combining the most current technology with the hand-wrought physicality of modeled objects, Mosley’s works explore how the mind can negotiate multiple—often incompatible—points of view, grappling with existence, work, and human life.

Joshua Mosley’s work has been the focus of recent exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, among others. Mosley received his BFA and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.