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Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926, Pennsylvania) is a sculptor who works primarily with wood. Skilled in every aspect of his craft, Mosley finds, seasons, and stores felled tree trunks for later use. His sculptures are assembled from hand-carved pieces including walnut, bass, and hickory, incorporating knots and their natural gradations. Immersed in this process for over seven decades, the artist has developed a distinctive language of expressive abstract forms rooted in the organic qualities of his material. Mosley鈥檚 practice of 鈥渓istening to wood鈥� inspired the exhibition鈥檚 title Touching the Earth, a phrase borrowed from the writer bell hooks.

The exhibition features eight bronzes recently cast from wood sculptures Mosley made between 1996 and 2021. The bronze sculptures range from human scale to the monumental Gate III, while varied patinas and textures preserve the original surfaces as well as the tactile presence of his hand and chisel. Mosley draws on influences as varied as modernist sculpture, his collection of Western African masks, and the genre of jazz, to realize a deeply humanist body of sculptures through distillation, invention, and improvisation.