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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8 Animals
Two on-going pivot points continue to be centered in the work: asking sculpture to take up the question of interior space and asking sculpture to productively press the linearity of language against the roundness of form. These points are used to pivot around what it means to be a human operating with full spatiality. The […]
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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 […]
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Spine
Questions of opacity and transparency take shape in Moss’s series of recent sculptures…. The torso-like forms bear swaths of paint and written passages culled from US laws regarding rioting. In Consumptive Reader, 1st degree (with Lemon), 2017, a painted tartan pattern is interrupted on one side by the shape of two breasts and, on the other, […]
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Wolfish Contour
Wolfish Contour presents new works by Los Angeles-based artist Ragen Moss. “I am testing Sculpture with this work. When I made it, I literally wrote down tests like: whether sculpture can hold/deal with climate or temperature; whether sculpture can deal with precision (it is generally treated as incapable of precision and I wonder why); and […]
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Gray Mandates
Operating between the optic and the haptic (the visual and the tactile), Moss’s voluminous, transparent sculptural objects reflect and embody her interest in the commonplace conventions and faculties of daily life, as well as the superstructures that inflect those conventions and faculties. Carved and shaped, Moss creates clear sculptures that act as a multilevel container […]