Dominique Moody: Nomadic Stories
‘NOMAD’ is Moody’s mobile artist residence, built from salvaged materials and objects. Just 150 square feet in size, the construction and contents of ‘NOMAD’ (Narrative, Odyssey, Manifesting, Artistic, Dreams) trace every element of daily life. Recently shown at the Hammer Museum, Moody’s ‘NOMAD’ is restaged at Frieze Los Angeles as part of Frieze Projects: ‘Inside Out’, curated by @artproductionfund. Made in Altadena – an LA neighborhood devastated by the Eaton fires – the work’s themes of home, displacement and housing insecurity gain new resonance.
By FRIEZE Los Angeles
Made in L.A. 2023: Dominique Moody
In tune with her ancestral diasporic kin from West Africa, Made in L.A. 2023 artist Dominique Moody's practice is an ode to more than sixty years of life as an urban nomad. In 2015 she created N.O.M.A.D., a 150-square-foot multipurpose mobile structure that the artist describes as an “inspiration studio.” As a celebration of the artist’s itinerant lifestyle, the piece proposes an exceptional case for life as a creative act while looking proactively at the housing crisis in urban centers throughout the United States.
By the Hammer Museum
In Studio with Angels Gate: Dominique Moody
Take an inside look into the creative mind and work of AGCC Studio Artist Dominique Moody.
By Angels Gate Cultural Center
By Any Means — Dominique Moody
By any means is to highlights people still finding a way to create during COVID. Traveling in her Nomad Dominique Moody has a vision for the new LA art space and what can be done in it.
By Marcus Filmz
Front & Center with Dominique Moody
In recent years black artists and thinkers have become front and center at mainstream institutions that have begun to present more exhibitions and programs about our art, history, and culture. Of course, this is nothing new to the California African American Museum. It’s been our mission to uphold African American art, history, and culture for more than forty years! Front & Center is a new video series in which we ask friends of CAAM this timely question: At this time, what do you think is the role and relevance of a place like CAAM, which is wholly dedicated to black creativity, vision, and experience? Here’s what artist Dominique Moody has to say.
By CAAM
Dominique Moody NOMAD 46
Dominique Moody and her tiny art house NOMAD 46 were in residence at Harrison House Music, Arts & Ecology for 14 months as the Samuel H. Scripps, Artist-in-Residence. This is a tribute to the beauty, serenity and creation that Dominique brought to the Harrison House Arts & Ecology site.
By Eva Soltes
Dominique Moody invites the public to her tiny house: The Nomad
Dominique Moody is an outside assemblage artist based in Watts. She creates art out of objects that she finds in the streets, at garage sales, flea markets and scrapyards. Her creations stem from the materials that surround her, the everyday objects that people would usually dispose of or pass without notice. Despite being legally blind, she is currently building a mobile home, from scratch, that she will use to travel around the country, building public art along the way. These weekly videos document our interactions with her.
By Leila Dougan
Dominique Moody and the Story of the Truck
Dominique Moody is an outside assemblage artist based in Watts. She creates art out of objects that she finds in the streets, at garage sales, flea markets and scrapyards. Her creations stem from the materials that surround her, the everyday objects that people would usually dispose of or pass without notice. Despite being legally blind, she is currently building a mobile home, from scratch, that she will use to travel around the country, building public art along the way. These weekly videos document our interactions with her.
By Leila Dougan