{"id":81893,"date":"2025-12-09T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81893\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:56:08","slug":"this-north-texas-natives-scrap-metal-sculptures-are-at-the-nasher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81893\/","title":{"rendered":"This North Texas native\u2019s scrap metal sculptures are at the Nasher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sculptures of stacked scrap metal sit behind the front window of the Nasher Sculpture Center. <\/p>\n

Artist Oshay Green, who grew up in North Texas and now lives in Paris, collected discarded pieces of tire rims, spare parts, piping and other materials from a metal junkyard in Dallas as the building blocks of his art. <\/p>\n

The sculptures, held together by nothing but their own weight and gravity, have somewhat of a resemblance to human figures. Each sculpture has its own round base with a type of body and face.<\/p>\n

\u201cEventually everything becomes sort of figurative after a while or you see that it holds a body of its own,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

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Green also created Elevation Solo For 4 Piece Drum Set, a composition that hangs on the back wall of the gallery. It walks visitors through a set of instructions to sonically experience the sculptures through drum sequences they compose themselves. The width of each sculpture\u2019s scrap metal pieces translates to a kick, snare, tom or hihat of a drum set. <\/p>\n

\"\u201cElevation<\/p>\n

\u201cElevation Solo for 4 Piece Drum Set\u201d by artist Oshay Green on display next to his sculptures at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. <\/p>\n

Juan Figueroa \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n

He hopes \u201cpeople can just see the work and be challenged by their imagination rather than a defined idea.\u201d <\/p>\n

This story has been lightly edited for clarity: <\/p>\n

It was great to hear that you\u2019re from Dallas. Where did you grow up or where did you used to live?<\/p>\n

I moved around a lot as a kid, so like all of D-FW. I lived in West Dallas for a bit as a kid, Pleasant Grove, Duncanville. I lived in Plano and Frisco for a little bit. Rockwall for like a year. I\u2019ve moved around so much that it\u2019s all a blur. But the whole D-FW metroplex, I feel like I\u2019ve been in every single corner of it. <\/p>\n

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Is there anything in the North Texas art scene that helped shape you?<\/p>\n

Yes, absolutely. There\u2019s a large group of artists that are in D-FW that are still active. The two people that got me introduced to the art scene are Paul Winker, who\u2019s an incredible painter, and River Shell, who is just an all-around artist. There\u2019s this gallery called PRP. It\u2019s where one of my studios was \u2013 I just moved out of there recently. It\u2019s a spot that really helped mold who I was.<\/p>\n

For people who maybe haven\u2019t had a chance to see it, can you talk a little bit about what\u2019s in the exhibition?<\/p>\n

It was a collection of cast iron pieces that I\u2019ve been hoarding, but I picked them up from a metal scrap shop. You know, usually it deals with a casting process or adhering somehow when it comes to assemblage. So the only thing that could really work with it is the physicality of it, just the weight. The weight helps sandwich the works to create a body. <\/p>\n

\"Sculptures<\/p>\n

Sculptures by artist Oshay Green on display at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. <\/p>\n

Juan Figueroa \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n

I\u2019m curious, why scrap metal? You said you were drawn to it. Was it its weight, how it looks, what it says or what about it interested you?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s cool because I feel like hypothetically those scrap metal pieces can hold a magnetic charge. You know, it\u2019s an interesting hypothesis of it kind of living in a way \u2013 that it has a charge or an energy to it. It\u2019s like a primal yet technological kind of way of it.<\/p>\n

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What do you want people to understand about your exhibition or take away from it? I think it\u2019s interesting that it\u2019s in front of the window so people are walking by. <\/p>\n

I want people to really play with our imagination. We\u2019re in a place where we have to be really creative with a lot of our critical thinking and find alternatives and outlets for us to kind of maneuver with what we\u2019re going through at this moment. <\/p>\n

I thought it was really interesting that you said none of the pieces are welded together because you can\u2019t and so they\u2019re essentially stacked on each other with no adhesive, so they could fall down. Why was that interesting to you or why did you make that choice?<\/p>\n

I made the choice because I had to make the choice, but I was really interested in the choice. I was interested in those pieces not being able to be permanently standing. I mean they\u2019re all stacked pieces. So, if you sit one aside by itself, it becomes a sort of monolith. And if it\u2019s a monolith that\u2019s able to just fall or be destroyed, at some point it will fall. It\u2019s like a really, really, really important thing. When it falls you can build it back up again step by step. <\/p>\n

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