Time Harvest

Musa Hixson

On view: February 11 – March 10, 2012
Opening reception: Saturday, February 11, 5–7pm

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 umbilical cord in mid-air. The cord opens up and spreads out its barbed wire tentacles into the 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 gallery space at FiveMyles the white whether balloons become a separate environment that serves to heighten the unexpected discovery of the barbed wire installation.

about the artist:

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 two months 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 has exhibited both in Japan and in Switzerland.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Arts Council, and by the Brooklyn Community Foundation.