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The multiform creations of Nadia Moss keep 'em guessing
by MARK SLUTSKY
"November and December were insane, with two shows opening within a week of each other," says local artist Nadia Moss. It's certainly been a whirlwind for the prolific art-school dropout: vernissages, exhibitions, sophisticated musical experimentation. December's first venture, a joint show with artist Luc Paradis, just closed at the Casa del Popolo, as did an exhibit at Elle Corazon by the Fortunate Lighthouse collective of which she is a part, along with sister Jessica and Eric Digras. All this not to mention her regular gig as in-house art director for Automatic Vaudeville Studios (and organist at their bi-annual screenings).
Moss's art comes in many forms, and the media she works with is diverse. "I often use embroidery, weaving and liquid plastic, which smells really bad," she says, naming just a few. Were you to have wandered into the Popolo this December you'd have seen, among other things, a giant, hanging Nadia-faced bird with movable wings, flat wall-mounted works with three-dimensional casts of scissors affixed to them, and other pieces that could probably be comfortably described as paintings. In a slightly different vein, on display at Elle Corazon were the Fortunate Lighthouse's hand-made "lightboxes." These are mounted wooden cubes with electrically illuminable pictures or photographs, usually containing some sort of visual surprise: a projected phantom figure or a satellite hanging over the landscape might appear when activated.
More shows are planned for the future, as well as a possible collaboration with a Boston-based artist buddy. Further musical projects, too, will likely be in the offing. "I recently acquired a piano, so I haven't been going out much," Moss says. Judging from her recent output, she's earned a little rest: one suspects, though, that she's bound to re-emerge soon.
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