NYAB Event - Norman Mooney "Wall Flowers"

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At Causey Contemporary
Media: Sculpture

Wall Flowers marks Norman Mooney’s first adventures in color sculpture having previously worked only in grays, blacks and whites. Wallflower no. 1 measuring six feet in diameter is an explosion of pollen yellows. The piece consists of over 500 aluminum castings all projecting outward four feet off the wall. Another larger wall flower in crimson resin having a diameter of 6-7 fee t will also be a part of the exhibition.

In addition to the wall flowers, Mooney’s exhibition will include the three final windseeds from a group of six he has executed. The first three such sculptures are in the permanent collection of Richard and Helen DeVos in Michigan, founders of Amway International. While like the wall flowers executed in cast aluminum, these white eight foot diameter sculptures seem light enough to move in a breeze and have been liked to dandelion seeds among other natural objects.

In both styles of sculpture, Mooney is inspired by his larger experience of the natural world and his attempt to understand the joy, wonder and beauty one experiences when feeling the first rays of the sun on your face in the morning, the explosion of color bursting from a flower or the etherealness of seeds floating on the wind. Formally, Mooney hopes to challenge the viewer to evaluate their place in the natural world and to engage them in a larger intuited reality.

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