K.r.m. Mooney
K.r.m. Mooney’s first solo exhibition at Altman Siegel, “Näcre,” presented a body of work contextualized in part by the gallery’s physical location and the ambient and sedimented information it holds. Pinned between the verticality of the city’s rapid development and the persistent horizontality of the bay, each piece reflexively engaged with the site as contingent on subject positions and contact points where the topography of Potrero Hill relaxes into salt water. Processes of acceleration and accumulation were indexed and poetically abstracted as densified forms. As Mooney pointed out in an essay for Flash Art magazine, "Providing a location for an exhibition and gathering the works that share space within involves a decision to make a specific type of interaction happen and at a particular scale. Operating as a small community of artists outside of a center, we are mandated to learn how place can mean, and the ways in which we are individually and jointly responsible for our own and one another’s development."
K.r.m. Mooney was born in San Francisco in 1990, receiving a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2012. Currently based in Oakland, California, Mooney's recent solo exhibitions include "Carrier" at Kunstverein Braunschweig, the SECA Art …
K.r.m. Mooney’s first solo exhibition at Altman Siegel, “Näcre,” presented a body of work contextualized in part by the gallery’s physical location and the ambient and sedimented information it holds. Pinned between the verticality of the city’s rapid development and the persistent horizontality of the bay, each piece reflexively engaged with the site as contingent on subject positions and contact points where the topography of Potrero Hill relaxes into salt water. Processes of acceleration and accumulation were indexed and poetically abstracted as densified forms. As Mooney pointed out in an essay for Flash Art magazine, "Providing a location for an exhibition and gathering the works that share space within involves a decision to make a specific type of interaction happen and at a particular scale. Operating as a small community of artists outside of a center, we are mandated to learn how place can mean, and the ways in which we are individually and jointly responsible for our own and one another’s development."
K.r.m. Mooney was born in San Francisco in 1990, receiving a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2012. Currently based in Oakland, California, Mooney's recent solo exhibitions include "Carrier" at Kunstverein Braunschweig, the SECA Art Award Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Near Passerine" at Pied-a-terre in Ottsville, and "En, Set" at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. Recent group exhibitions include Sculptures at Andrew Kreps in New York and School of Chairs at 500 Cap St. in San Francisco.
Courtesy of Altman Siegel
