Kevin P. Mosley

Artist Statement

I prefer to put my work together on window sashes, because there's an easily missed narrative in old wood-framed windows. People observed their environments through these windows, while their environments observed them through the outside of the glass. Having been looked through from both sides, these windows have their own stories to tell.   My work is about making new narratives and creating the beginning of a window's new history.

Light is essential to the process and product of my work; light breaks through the rigidity imposed by my use of geometric shapes. I use layers of reflective materials that add to and alter the light already reflecting from the glass. The pieces are, put simply, a series of layers: pattern, shine, reflection and color, all intended to draw viewers closer, to examine, and to see themselves reflected in and from the work.

In current work, I am working with grids, using a color coded numerical system to count in some pieces and to create ciphers in others. Patterns, random though seemingly not so, emerge as colors tumble across and down these grids.