Avigail Moss
Researcher Fine Art
01.01.09 – 31.12.10
I am interested in exploring the role that epistolary addresses or accounts play in the construction of historical narratives, specifically written or recorded biographies. Such narratives may be fragmentary, unwieldy and, for the most part, terminally unresolved. They elicit questions of how one might correspond with, or render visible a displaced or deceased subject. Interpreting an epistolary transmission constitutes an act of translation that invokes a collapse of temporal and spatial divides between individuals (be they senders, receivers, interceptors, or all of the above). Texts such as these are particularly vulnerable to wilful misreadings and misrepresentations, a reflection not only on the instability of interpersonal relationships, but on the socio-political settings that shape them.
I will be investigating several bodies of correspondence and biographies in relation to gendered conceptions of writing. This research will culminate in a publication exploring the contemporary resonances of these narrative forms, and serve as a catalyst for a third body of work examining connections between the visual and the semantic.
Los Angeles, US
Visiting student graphic design. Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL.
MFA Painting. Yale University School of Art, New Haven, US.
BA. University of California, Los Angeles, US.
Yale School of Art at Norfolk, Norfolk, US.
Guest advisor/Thesis reviewer. Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, NL.
Adjunct professor of Foundation drawing. Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, US.
Editorial assistant, F.R. David, Summer 2008. De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, NL.
Committee member. Graduate admissions, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, US.
Teaching assistant with Sarah Oppenheimer of Painting. Yale University, New Haven, US.
Visiting artist coordinator. Yale University School of Art, New Haven, US.
Internship. Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US.
Internship. The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US.
Sommerakademie. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, CH.
Dedalus Foundation MFA fellowship. New York, US.
Robert Schoelkopf Travelling fellowship (United Kingdom). Yale University, New Haven, US.
Hans G. and Thordis W. Burkhardt Foundation award. University of California, Los Angeles, US.
Ellen Battell Stoeckel fellowship. Yale University, New Haven, US.
Art council award. University of California, Los Angeles, US.
Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith scholarship. University of California, Los Angeles, US.
Elaine Krown Klein scholarship. University of California, Los Angeles, US.
Kay Nielsen memorial award. Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, US.
Lillian Levinson scholarship. University of California, Los Angeles, US.
The negative line. Artistic practice and the diagrammatic. (17 – 18 July). Presentations, film screenings and discussions. With Ruth Buchanan & Kerstin Stakemeier. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Clémentine Deliss and Oscar Tuazon. Dragged down into lowercase. In: dragged down into lowercase, pp. 4-8. Bern, CH.
No sender or receiver, only an address. In: dragged down into lowercase, pp. 49-51. Bern, CH.
Doug Harvey. (Untitled). In: Aspects of Mel’s hole. A catalogue, pp. 56-57.
Three cents. In: Ein Magazin über Orte, 5.
Fixed gear. In: Palimpsest, 5. Yale Arts Magazine.
(Untitled). In: Palimpsest, 4. Yale Arts Magazine.
Briggs, Jo. Avigail Moss. In: Yale MFA catalogue, pp. 12-15.
Christopher Knight. (28 October). Fresh, original voices in L.A. In: L.A. Times, p. E26.
Doug Harvey. (27 October). State of Emergence: A catalogue. In: LA Weekly, pp. 46-49, 54.
Aspects of Mel’s Hole. (6 September – 19 October). Santa Ana, Grand Central Art Gallery Cal State Fullerton, US. (Exh. Cat.).
dragged down into lowercase. (6 – 17 August). Bern, CH: Zentrum Paul Klee. (Exh. Cat.).
MFA thesis exhibition. New Haven, US: Yale University School of Art.
High desert test sites. (12 – 13 May). Art swap meet for Amy and Wendy Yao. Joshua Tree, US.
Kairos! (10 March – 21 April). Los Angeles, US: Kantor / Feuer Gallery.
The first annual LA weekly biennial. Santa Monica, US: Track 16 Gallery.
Champion fine art. Culver City, US.
Insider trading. Los Angeles, US: The Black Dragon Society.
A million pieces. Los Angeles, US: Hayworth Gallery.
Perspectives on and around the Chinese room. (18 July). In: The negative line. Artistic practice and the diagrammatic. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
(Untitled). In: Opening week 2009. (12 – 16 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Grass beyond the door. New Haven, US: Yale University School of Art.