2008 Woodie Awards
Artist melds media to create modern monsters
By: Angela Riley
Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: Lifestyle
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For artists, it is important that they learn various media to express themselves. Joshua Mosley emphasized this when he spoke about his use of different media in his artwork Nov. 2 at the Art Department's Friday Lecture Series.
"I always like to work with (media) that I haven't worked with before," Mosley said. "If I don't, I begin to focus on the concept too much instead of what I'm doing with my hands. It gets too brainy."
Mosley's primary work is in animation, but he incorporates other art forms into his work. His piece "Dread" has six 3-D scanned clay sculptures, including a dog, a beetle and a cow in the foreground. The background consists of irregular cycles of six digital photographs he took in Hawaii. Another of his pieces, "A Vue," has digitally photographed stop-motion puppets, a 24-inch bronze monument and watercolor scenery.
The different media Mosley uses in his work appealed to a large variety of artists, and students were able to learn about different art forms.
"It was amazing to see the different facets of art that he used: photography, sculpture, animation and music," said Sarah Thiele, a junior studio art and advertising major. "I loved seeing how everything branched out and developed as he went."
Originally from St. Louis, Mosley attended Florissant Valley Community College and went on to get his degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently is an associate professor of fine arts in the School of Design at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Mosley walked through his thought process and how he created "Dread." His inspiration began when he saw a piece of artwork depicting Cerberus, the famous three-headed dog from Greek mythology. He imagined that two of the heads in the painting were barking the different names of Pascal and Rousseau. Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher who wrote proofs trying to prove the existence of God. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher of the Enlightenment who believed that man was good by nature.
"I always like to work with (media) that I haven't worked with before," Mosley said. "If I don't, I begin to focus on the concept too much instead of what I'm doing with my hands. It gets too brainy."
Mosley's primary work is in animation, but he incorporates other art forms into his work. His piece "Dread" has six 3-D scanned clay sculptures, including a dog, a beetle and a cow in the foreground. The background consists of irregular cycles of six digital photographs he took in Hawaii. Another of his pieces, "A Vue," has digitally photographed stop-motion puppets, a 24-inch bronze monument and watercolor scenery.
The different media Mosley uses in his work appealed to a large variety of artists, and students were able to learn about different art forms.
"It was amazing to see the different facets of art that he used: photography, sculpture, animation and music," said Sarah Thiele, a junior studio art and advertising major. "I loved seeing how everything branched out and developed as he went."
Originally from St. Louis, Mosley attended Florissant Valley Community College and went on to get his degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently is an associate professor of fine arts in the School of Design at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Mosley walked through his thought process and how he created "Dread." His inspiration began when he saw a piece of artwork depicting Cerberus, the famous three-headed dog from Greek mythology. He imagined that two of the heads in the painting were barking the different names of Pascal and Rousseau. Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher who wrote proofs trying to prove the existence of God. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher of the Enlightenment who believed that man was good by nature.
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