Riki Moss was raised in Brooklyn, earned a BA at the University of Chicago, studied ceramics at the San Francisco Art Institute and received an MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has exhibited works in clay, encaustic and paper sculpture widely. She was an Art Matters grant recipient and is the author of a novel published in 2009 by North Atlantic Books. For the past five years, her work has revolved around the idea of a Paper Forest, an ongoing sculptural installation evolving in her new studio on an island North of Burlington, Vermont. Her upcoming exhibition in Nagoya, Japan is partially funded by the Vermont Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, Island Arts and the generous contribution of friends. She has also been invited to the Holland Paper Biennial in the summer of 2010.
Visual artist working primarily with over-beaten abaca pulp. "My concern these days is to establish a dialogue with the natural world (The Paper Forest) to bring into the political conversation. To present what is, without despair or agenda or irony."
Partner in studio-glow with Robert Ostermeyer, creating illuminated sculptures with abaca pulp as contemporary lighting.
Writer: a novel, An Obese White Gentleman In No Apparent Distress, (North Atlantic Books, January 2009).
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