Trained as a Sound Designer and a Welder, Oshay Green Is Pushing Sculpture Forward

At 29, Green has been making music much longer than visual art—the materiality of sound gives him a language for his three-dimensional work. The term “artist” only became relevant to him in 2018, when he started tinkering with metal, pallets, wood, and steel in a painter friend’s Dallas studio. Green simply thought, Why not?

 

His oblique relationship to the artist label is mirrored in his installations: assemblages composed of found materials that have not quite transcended their prior status as debris, the uncanny trace of their past lives an aura that hovers around them. Green uses materials such as concrete, ink, rope, obsidian, and charcoal to render industrial prisms through which the mythology of capitalism, decay, and mortality are refracted. Even the artist’s influences form a kind of layered collage—splashes of Madlib and J Dilla with a touch of Nam June Paik.

 

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