Moss has announces ARTHUR, its new exhibit on view concurrently in New York with the renowned Armory art show from March 3 – April 15, 2011. The exhibit challenges function’s place as the traditional line between art and design.

Says Murray Moss:

…while we have never in fact understood the obsessive need for clarity when it comes to identifying a work as Art or Design, nor perceived a danger in exhibiting together functional and non-functional creative works (we do think grown-ups can handle such juxtapositions), we have decided this time to avoid the issue altogether. Extrapolating from the male nickname ‘Art’, we have decided to name this exhibition—which we hope will contribute to an eventual acceptance of the possibility of fluidity between disciplines—by the more formal, more mature male name, ‘Arthur’.

Norman Hasselriis and Dudley Reed

Moss presents the debut of works by Norman Hasselriis (1918-2006). A poet, publishing executive, and highly idiosyncratic artist, Hasselriis began to create whimsically exuberant sculptural works late in his life he referred to as ‘assemblages’, which he composed from found objects. Over a twenty-year span Hasselriis strung together detritus like one would pearls on a necklace. A storyteller, he paired endless multitudes of juxtapositions as a child might, imagining them speaking to each other after the adults had gone to bed. Highly informed, Hasselriis’s seemingly innocent mise-en-scenes are more Dadaesque than Outsider, the product of an intelligent, urbane Peter Pan.

In an unusual dialogue with the Hasselriis sculptures, Moss presents photographs of a number of the works taken by noted British photographer Dudley Reed, who met Norman in 2004 when Hasselriis was shopping for doll heads at the local flea market. In addition to the artist’s portrait, Reed has photographed to date nearly fifty of the assemblages. This is the first public exhibition of both the Hasselriis sculptures and the Reed photographs.

Christian Haas

Julien Carretero

Phillip Low

Cathy McClure