The undergraduate and graduate Fine Arts departments at Otis College of Art and Design are excited to host Ragan Moss on Tuesday, October 3rd! Join us in person from 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. in the Forum for this special guest lecture and Q&A session.
Los Angeles–based artist Ragen Moss (she/her) creates sci-fi-ish sculptures in which biomorphic forms made of clear polyethylene contain organlike objects and hang from metal armatures, suggesting cocoons or alien pods. She applies acrylic paint and handwritten text to the sculptures’ interior and exterior surfaces, playing with transparency and opacity and creating dialogues within and among the works.
Moss—who is a practicing lawyer in addition to being an artist—wrote that her work “ask[s] sculpture to productively press the linearity of language against the roundness of form”
Her sculptures prompt reflection on dyads such as the conscious and unconscious body, parasite and host, parent and fetus. They also remind us of language’s role in shaping these dynamics—language that is not confined to science fiction, but that defines the laws that govern everyday phenomena, from financial transactions to agriculture.
