Grant Mooney

In Grant Mooney’s series, Cation c. (i-vi), various impressions of an early technology deployed in small-scale metallurgy are cast in silver. This method uses found cuttlebone to form molten silver topologies which sit amid steel channels, electroplated with silver to varied degrees. As particles migrate with an electrical current to form new layers on steel surfaces, “material disputes” between ferrous (containing iron) and non-ferrous compounds, occur as the surface becomes volatile in the moment of contact with air. Encouraged to oxidate and bind with free particles, each piece's coloration evolves from silver to amber over time, based on contingent interactions with the gallery environment and the viewers within.

Grant Mooney (b. 1990) lives and works in Brooklyn. Mooney’s work was included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Progetto, Lecce, Italy; Wesleyan Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, MN; Miguel Abreu, New York, NY; the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany; and Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Group exhibitions include Konrad Fisher Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany; Drei, Cologne, Germany; Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany; Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin, Germany; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland; Bureau, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland; Sculpture Center, New York, NY; and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. Mooney has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in London, UK that opens in fall 2025.