Ragen Moss: Gray Mandates
.
Oct 27–Dec 3, 2016
Press Release (PDF)
Operating between the optic and the haptic (the visual and the tactile), Ragen Moss’s voluminous, transparent sculptural objects reflect and embody her interest in the commonplace conventions and faculties of daily life. First carved out of foam and shaped using a vacuum form, Moss creates clear hard-shelled sculptures that act as a multilevel substrate for painting and textual elements. Moss likens the viewer’s relationship to them as similar to that of “a person wearing a sweatshirt”—confronting the viewer with both a figure as a spatial proposition, as well as a textual announcement. She elaborates: “The work should function somewhere between consumption and learning; between chewing gum and reading (where the viewer uses the same ‘tools’ they would in any other daily matter).
Full Texts used on the Gray Mandate Sculptures
Ragen Moss, Gray Mandates, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Installation view.
Ragen Moss, Gray Mandates, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Installation view.
Ragen Moss, Gray Mandates, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Installation view.
Ragen Moss, Gray Mandates, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Installation view.
Ragen Moss, Gray Mandates, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Installation view.
Ragen Moss, Gray Mandates, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Installation view.
Ragen Moss, Gray Mandates, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Installation view.
Ragen Moss, Gray Mandates, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Installation view.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Building, District), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Building, District), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (District), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (District), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss Untitled (Museum), 2016 Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Museum), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Site), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Site), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Site, Object, Structure), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Site, Object, Structure), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Structure), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.
Ragen Moss, Untitled (Structure), 2016, Polychromed plastic, 40 x 40 x 15 inches.