Soul Mate 180°

Kirsten Mosher’s paintings are insights into the urban sprawl.  Both cruel and naive, her works recycle the style of cartoons for entirely different ends and purposes, detourment with a fine sense of humour. The artist often starts with motifs borrowed from the existing city landscape.  She picks on particular buildings, road sign systems or nondescript industrial zones.  These bits of reality are then radically changed - mixed and ”sampled” on the surface of the painting, they melt into architectonic entities reminiscent of a bird’s - eye view of a run-down factory or a stage set for a strange old sci-fi movie.

_Adam Szymczyk

Among the venues paintings from this series have been shown are Andrea Rosens’s Room 2, and at the Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Kremer, Netherlands for the show Amateur curated by Adam Szymczyk & Charles Esche. And collected by the Daimler Chrysler Museum in Berlin.

Landing Party was created for my show at the Bahvarterhaus, Villa Merkel in Esslingen Germany curated by Dr. Renate Wiehager. The exhibit also included a series of paintings starting with Dr. Who’s Retirement Village and my video Lift Up and Push in which a family erects a tent in the woods by following the directions on the box.

 1999, 15 small tents- 26x19x12, 3 medium tents-52x38x23, 3 large tents-80x59x37, building and 36 silver, orange and pink tents pitched on the inside and outside walls and roof of the building

Glam Rocks is a modified environment including a path, a parking area and an outdoor work shop for kids at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY.  Rocks and cars were painted the same colors, orange, blue, purple, green and silver and built into a path and dry-stack walls around the work/play area framed with construction netting. 2001