Sculptor Hoss Haley creates two- and three-dimensional works in steel, concrete, and bronze. He favors industrial materials and fabrication methods, often building or adapting the machines and tools he uses to produce his work. Hoss has recently taken on several public art projects, working with the Charlotte Area Transit System (NC), Mecklenburg County (NC), and Asheville’s Pack Square Conservancy (NC). His most recent solo exhibition in September, 2006, was a collection of sculpture and paintings on steel at Joie Lassiter Gallery (NC). Hoss’s work has been shown at several museums and galleries nationwide, and he has been a resident artist at Penland School of Crafts (NC) and at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI). A Kansas native, Hoss learned machining and steel fabrication at an early age and then apprenticed as a blacksmith for several years in Texas and New Mexico. Decades later his work is heavily influenced both conceptually and aesthetically by the western landscape of his youth. Hoss lives with his wife and son in Asheville, NC.