Presented By Diego Keen
Title: Thinking About Abstraction
Price: FREE on SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/mazey-moon/dinner-party
Statement: Mazey Moon creates arrangements of modulated and looped sounds that are sourced from acoustic instruments. Some instruments used in Thinking About Abstraction are: flute, guitar, piano, and some children's toy instruments. Mazey uses the scales of her ancestors which are translated in the colonized world as the pentatonic scale.
Thinking About Abstraction is Mazey Moon's expression of ideas, conversations, and work cultivated by abstract painters.
Revisitation is an idea that abstract painter Kristy Luck introduced Mazey to, through Kristy's work.
www.kristyluck.com/
Artist and art educator, Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos) offers content physically and metaphysically to the many layers and loops in Thinking About Abstraction. Below is a link to a conversation introduced to Mazey by Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos). This conversation includes Black abstraction artists from LA listed below.
Sharon Barnes: @sharonbarnes4702
Adrian Culverson: @aculverson
Adrienne DeVine: @adriennedevinemixedmediaart
June Edmonds: @juneeeccee
Holly Tempo: @hollytempo
Lisa Diane Wedgeworth: @ldwstudio
Dr. jill moniz: @jillithmoniz
Isabelle Lutterodt: @lamagbarnsdall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJmRnDQeb…3kDMAUAmQZtvbqCJk
What remains? What changes?
Bio: Mazey Moon was born in Salem, Oregon in 1991 where she grew up in an agricultural area with her large and diverse family. Her mother, Kim, was adopted from Korea in 1954 to a family in Oklahoma. After Kim’s adopted mother passed away in Florida while Kim was enrolled at Florida State, she went to California where she met Mazey’s Father, Joe (Alias). Joe is and always will be an outlaw. From serving time for stealing farm equipment to building a compound made of secondhand or repurposed materials in his backyard, his disregard for government imposed law and abundant creative force influences Mazey’s work, still. Mazey had a small area in her father’s perpetual construction site where she would (unsuccessfully) try to build robots out of scraps that she would find playing in what her family called, “the junkyard”. With four kids in a family, it’s hard to get a word in. Mazey found music to be a source of comfort in many ways when she was very young. She had trouble reading as a child but picked up reading music as if it were her first language. She quickly developed an ability to play many instruments.
Mazey currently resided in Portland, Oregon where she arrived in 2009 to go to the Oregon Culinary Institute where she graduated with an associates degree in restaurant management and a diploma in baking & pastry. Mazey was featured on an episode of the Cooking Channel’s show Unique Sweets on their Portland centered episode titled Sweetlandia in 2015. After struggling with harassment in the kitchen environment, Mazey left the restaurant industry and took a gig working for Courtney Taylor-Taylor from the Dandy Warhols as his family’s private chef. This exposed Mazey to an international world of creatives and motivated her to enroll in PNCA’s undergraduate program to pursue her passion to create.
Mazey makes sculptural work based on the experience she has in her body as a cyborg and will be graduating from PNCA in the spring of 2021 with a BFA in Sculpture with a minor in Art & Ecology. Mazey spends most of her time recording music and sculpting.