SEASONS
Seasons is an artist-run contemporary photography gallery started in 2024 in Los Angeles, California. It is currently located in Chinatown at 422 Ord St on the 2nd Floor.
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Seasons 03: Chelsea Mosher
Sun Circle Sea
07/12/25-08/23/25
Artists
Chelsea Mosher
Statement
Sun Circle Sea emerges as a visual response to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' 2025 announcement that the Doomsday Clock had advanced to 89 seconds before midnight—the closest in its history. These unique gelatin silver prints feature image layers of the sea, recorded off the Southern California coast, where the ocean was contaminated for decades by the Montrose Chemical Corporation with DDT, radioactive waste, military munitions, and sulfuric acid.
The images within Sun Circle Sea are structured as layered compositions—an approach toward a visual song cycle. The final works reveal visual traces gathered in the field, staged in the photography studio, and finally assembled and printed in the analog darkroom. In the studio, materials act as agents of interference, disruption, and reconfiguration. The circle repeats and shifts between what it holds and represents.
When my eyes are open in the dark, I see something like television snow—an elusive wash of pulsing dots. It’s like the atmospheric fizzle I hear when I’m somewhere totally silent. Intuitively, it makes sense to bring this experience of perception to the work I make at the ocean as a way to interpret the complexity of working along the Southern California coastline.
As we gaze toward the horizon, the waves carry the historical and contemporary abuses of late-stage capitalism and militarism. With these works, I am thinking about unseen and invisible contamination, distress signals, and messages to an unknown future amidst cycles of destruction, extraction, climate crisis, and genocide. I’m also drawn to the horizon and the circle as symbols of hope and regeneration, and to the sea as the ultimate embodiment of the sublime.
Bio: Chelsea Mosher is an artist working with and through the medium of photography. She holds an MFA in Photography from California State University, Long Beach.
Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Gallery Luisotti (Los Angeles, CA); UCR Arts:California Museum of Photography (Riverside, CA); Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Intersect Art & Design (Palm Springs, CA). Most recently, her work was featured in the Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition, Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees at the Museum of Art & History (Lancaster, CA).
Her work is included in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the special collections of LACMA, Stanford Libraries, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Her work appears in the recent publication Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees (Inlandia Institute, 2024) and will be featured in the upcoming Brink anthology (2025).
Mosher is a professor of photography and has taught for over a decade across the spectrum of California higher education, including in the art departments of UCLA, Orange Coast College, and California State University, Long Beach.
Chelsea lives and works in Long Beach, California.