Ragen Moss
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What Is a Deprivation?
What Is a Deprivation? is an exhibition by Ragen Moss consisting of twelve sculptures, each suspended from a single point in the ceiling and derived by thinking about key questions for our times. Moss has been working alone on these sculptures for the past few years and continues to make each of her translucent works […]
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Humane Imagination
Moss’s sculptures are not passive, but active; not static, but in motion; not fractional, but whole. They do not hang heavily, but seem to float up, buoyed with light and air. They are responsive: they turn, gently, in the currents generated by the movement of the viewer. They are not dead, but very much alive. […]
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2 Assurances
Ragen Moss is an artist whose practice considers the history of sculpture and offers the discourse of sculpture a new turn towards an original and complex use of space. Moss’s proposition for contemporary sculpture is to move away from a flat consideration of exterior rind or mere surface and instead to press sculpture towards capaciousness: […]
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The Whitney Biennial
Spatial Language: A Conversation with Ragen Moss published in Sculpture Magazine by Jan Garden Castro Ragen Moss’s breakout success at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and her current solo show point to new directions in sculpture. Spatial and temporal foci, interiority, and embedded paradoxes and ironies push her investigations into the workings of relational, mental, and physical […]
