Yvonne Mouser: The Shape of Time
September 18 – November 13, 2021
Municipal Bonds is pleased to present a solo exhibition of sculptural works by Yvonne Mouser, titled The Shape of Time. Oakland-based Mouser investigates her fascination with perceptions of time and natural phenomena, through works suggesting growth, decay, or a sequence of temporal states. In altering mundane objects, she creates portraits of moments teasing apart strands of time and causality. Finding flux visible at the intersections of order and chaos, of reality and memory, she experiments with concepts, materials, and evolving processes that draw attention to moments of transformation. Read full press release.
“I’ve always been mesmerized by the reality that everything is at some rate changing, even that which seems fixed. And that a single experience can, at times, contrast itself, feeling both tragic and beautiful at the same time. In a way, my work is about my expanding awareness of and acceptance from within these fundamental dynamics.”
— Yvonne Mouser
Yvonne Mouser
Yvonne Mouser is an artist, designer, and maker based in Oakland, California. She was born in San Diego and raised in semi-rural Texas where her love of the tactile world first attracted her to sculpture. Functional interest led her to the furniture program at California College of the Arts where she received a BFA with high distinction in 2006.
Her work is included in private collections, and has been exhibited internationally and nationally including the Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy; the Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia; the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design; the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco; COPIA in Napa, CA; the Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts in Alta Loma, CA; and the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.
Mouser is currently a Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Wood Arts within the Furniture Program of California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Municipal Bonds
Municipal Bonds—our name as well as our purpose—is a symbolic play on words. Municipalities form and encourage a concentration of people and ideas, where bonds are the connections and strengths between us. Conceived in the Bay Area, CA in 2019, Municipal Bonds is a contemporary art gallery, international in scope and cross-cultural by intention. Founded and directed by Emily Miller, Municipal Bonds seeks to enhance artists’ support, development, and exposure; and to increase the diversity of art showcased for the betterment of community, collectors, and creativity.
For all enquiries, please contact Emily Miller at 917.450.0583 or info@municipalbonds.art.