Florissant Valley Art Gallery: Thursday, 1 November 2007

Exhibition and lecture on the campus of St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley featuring the video and animation work of Joshua Mosley. Join us for Joshua Mosley's lecture on Thursday, November 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the campus theater. A reception with the artist will take place immediately following the lecture in the Florissant Valley Art Gallery located in IR111. The exhibition will be on display November 1 - December 7.

Joshua Mosley employs digitally sophisticated "claymation" for a melancholic meditation on human alienation from nature, starring 18th century philosophers Rousseau and Pascal. The evanescence of their forest encounters with a giant beetle, an obtuse cow and a romping dog, projected in a six-minute black-and-white film, is contrasted with plain-spoken bronze sculptures of all the magically animated figures, reducing them to lovely, obsolete trinkets. The philosophical dilemma between mind and matter is beautifully conjured.

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 10-4 p.m., Saturdays 10-3 p.m. The Florissant Valley Art Gallery is located on the campus of St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, 3400 Pershall Road, St. Louis, MO 63135. The Gallery is located on the first floor of the Instructional Resource building, room 111.

Groups of 10 or more please contact the Gallery Director at or call 513-4861 to make arrangements.