Musa Hixson "Time Harvest"
FiveMyles
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The sphere, an important theme in the artist’s work, is here presented by eight large weather balloons that fill up half of the gallery space. The balloons are an undecided presence; their density is as much of a menace as their soft roundness gives comfort.
As the viewer maneuvers around the balloons, a vista opens up and reveals a spider-web like installation made of barbed wire. For the artist it represents a birth process. The outline of a figure hangs on its ambil. Cord in mid-air. The cord opens up and spreads out its barbed wire tentacles into the open space around it.
Musa Hixson describes himself as an installation artist. He has repeatedly used the weather balloons to add volume to a space or to condense it. In the gray space at FiveMyles the white whether balloons become a separate environment that serves to heighten the unexpected discovery of the barbed wire installation.
Musa Hixson received an MFA degree from Pratt University in 1998. He recently returned from a residency at the 3-D foundation in Verbier Switzerland, and in 2010 spent some time in at a residency in Obama, Japan. Locally his work has been seen at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Chelsea, the Mocada Museum, the Skylight Gallery and Long Island University in Brooklyn, and he exhibited both in Japan and in Switzerland.
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from February 11, 2012 to March 10, 2012