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Thaddeus Mosley, Inverted Dancer, sculpture, 2022, campus art, Fifth & Clyde Residence Hall, in…
Inverted Dancer
Thaddeus Mosley, Inverted Dancer, sculpture, 2022, campus art, Fifth & Clyde Residence Hall, installation. Photo by Kevin Lorenzi, Carnegie Mellon University.

Inverted Dancer

Date2022
Artist Thaddeus Mosley  (American, born 1926)
Mediumbronze
Dimensions8 1/2 feet tall
ClassificationFine Art
SubclassificationSculpture
Credit LineCurated by Elizabeth Chodos, CMU Johnson Family Public Art Curator.
Object number2025.06.08
DescriptionInverted Dancer by Thaddeus Mosley (installed in 2022), a gravity-defying, 8 ½-foot-tall bronze sculpture cast from reworked wood that the artist carves with the spontaneity of a jazz musician, installed at Fifth and Clyde Residence Hall on the Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh campus.
On view
Location Fifth and Clyde House (4735 Fifth Ave)
Published References"Fifth and Clyde Courtyard Is Stage for Celebrated Pittsburgh Artist," By Rachel Latsko. The Piper CMU, March 15, 2022
https://www.cmu.edu/piper/news/archives/2022/march/inverted-dancer.html
Thaddeus Mosley Inverted Dancer Sculpture Time-Lapse Installation video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjgfeDWjZUU

Thaddeus Mosley: African American Sculptor by David Lewis 1997
https://www.amazon.com/Thaddeus-Mosley-African-American-Lonnie-Graham/dp/0822939851

Artist's profile at Karma
https://karmakarma.org/artists/thaddeus-mosley