Name/Title
Loki MesaDescription
One of the nation's leading figures in clay, University of Georgia Emeritus Professor Andy Nasisse created "Loki Mesa" for the "Terra Animata" (or Animated Earth) exhibit hosted by MAS (May through October 2019). In this body of work, Nasisse celebrates the landscape of Utah as a magical place where the animistis imagination thrives in the suggestive eroded shapes that emerge and cast theit timeless shadows. "For many years," said the artist "I've been making sculpture that references the mythic possibilities of the figure, the metaphorical possibilities of the vessel, and the animistic extreme contrasts -- light and dark, hot and cold, parched dry terrain and sudden flash floods. A land of fantastical forms sculpted over millions of years by wind and rain, creating hoodoos, mesas, gulches, draws arches, towers, canyons, and buttes. His study of the landscape inspires his sculptures. "Like a lot of artists, my influences are eclectic and varied," said Nasisse. "I look at historical vessels, especially votive and burial pieces, japanese Haniwa, Peruvian pots, Mayan clay sculpture, killed Mimbres bowls, and mexican folk art, plus also the work of visionaries, outsiders, the Chicago imagists from the 1970's and authors like Cormac McCathy, Joseph Campbell, and Neil Gaiman."Collection
Permanent CollectionDimensions
Dimension Notes
Actual- 45" X 35" X 11"