Quentin's profile
QUENTIN B. MOSELEY 5701 Pimlico Road Baltimore, Maryland 21209 410 868 8165
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Instagram: @themuseumofprehistory
Quentin Moseley is Faculty Emeritus at the Maryland Institute College of Art after retiring from MICA in 2020. He has been chair of the Printmaking Department, the Foundation Department, and has been Coordinator of Health and Safety at MICA. He received his MFA in 1972 from The Hoffberger School of Painting and BFA from Syracuse School of Art in 1970.
Moseley’s art continues with the exploration of two different contexts that explore both ancient and contemporary signage.
“The Museum of Pre-History” is the context through which the artist appropriates ancient Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age symbols, which he re-envisions to document and visualize our own inevitable biologic human concerns with sex, society, security and time. The artist has been inside a total of eight Paleolithic painted and sculpted caves in the Dordogne Valley of France and Spain, and has visited many of the great Megalithic sites of Brittany and the British Isles to inspire the “Museum of Pre-history” for his series of constructions, drawings, prints and neon.
“Night Drawing” is the context for large scale animated neon installations that Moseley has done throughout his career. With a system of over 200 modular neontubes, Moseley has done commissioned installations on the top parapets or facades of buildings in cities including Miami, Portland Maine, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Memphis. His most recent neon was Gateway Baltimore, an 8’x72’ animated frieze for Light City Baltimore.
