Under Water
Locust Projects presents Under Water, a collaboration between New York-based artists Michael DeLucia, David Kennedy Cutler and David Scanavino. Their room-scale installation reinterprets a pastoral beach scene across two and three dimensions, with synthetic sun and moon rising over a pixelated ocean. Evoking ambiguities of scale and dimension, the artists tile, wallpaper and construct this environment with CNC-routed forms and computer-generated textures. Under Water is a virtual landscape thatimports its digitality into physical reality.
Nice 'n Easy: Open Up
For Open Up Miami-based artists Nice ‘n Easy (Allison Matherly and Jeffrey Noble) use their signature subtropical vernacular style to create a new installation that centers around tiled benches bathed in a warm florescent glow. Treating posture as a proxy for intimacy, the benches--with angled seat backs-- invite visitors to sit back or lean forward in a binary of comfort and discomfort, respectively. The comfortable configuration faces a video of the artists entering the ocean, while the other positions its sitter in direct engagement with others in the space. Open up stages a microcosm of human interaction and the warmth, frigidity, desire, and hesitation that can surface through these encounters.
Saturday, April 29
Conversation with the exhibiting artists: 6:30-7:30PM
Opening Reception: 7:30-9:30PM
Exhibitions on view through June 10, 2017
