As a woodworker and artist, Croney Moses has distinguished her style of curved wood veneer sculptures over the last several years, shaping wood almost as if it were clay.
She’s creating contemporary art using a skill she first learned making furniture with her father as a kid. Her first solo show, “Artist and woodworker Alison Croney Moses in her woodshop.
“In furniture, people want you to make rectangular functional objects and I don't do that,” she said. Her tables resembled trees with big oval tops. When a professor asked her to build a box, it looked more like a cradle or basket. “Nature is not arbitrary. There's our scientific description of how things come together, or the shapes that are made, but they're often very angular,” Croney Moses said. “It's not simple. It's complicated. But there's a beauty in that complexity that creates a simple form.”Curator Michelle Millar Fisher, who works at the Museum of Fine Arts, says there are few artists or craftspeople creating work like Croney Moses.
“We did joyous gatherings for Black moms,” Croney Moses said, describing the events as a space to connect to their youthful selves, to laugh and play. “I also did a lot of investigation for this exhibit around physical transformation that's needed to access or re-access joy in my body.”She convened other Black mothers and artists following the murder of George Floyd to process their emotions.
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