Thaddeus Mosley is a Pittsburgh-based, self-taught artist whose monumental sculptures are crafted with the felled trees of the city’s urban canopy; wood from local sawmills; and reclaimed building materials. Exclusively using a mallet and chisel, he reworks these salvaged pieces of timber into his signature biomorphic forms through a largely intuitive and improvisational process. A trio of three works commissioned for the 2020 edition of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York marked the artist’s first foray into bronze casting in his six decade long career; a turning point in the development of how his timber works are expressed. Geometric Plateau marks the artist’s latest foray into this iteration of his work.
Thaddeus Mosley is a Pittsburgh-based, self-taught artist whose monumental sculptures are crafted with the felled trees of the city’s urban canopy; wood from local sawmills; and reclaimed building materials. Exclusively using a mallet and chisel, he reworks these salvaged pieces of timber into his signature biomorphic forms through a largely intuitive and improvisational process. A trio of three works commissioned for the 2020 edition of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York marked the artist’s first foray into bronze casting in his six decade long career; a turning point in the development of how his timber works are expressed. Geometric Plateau marks the artist’s latest foray into this iteration of his work.
