Meet the Artists 2021 Miami Art Week Opening Reception
Thanks to all who came to our Miami Art Week reception to view Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib’s new immersive video installation, Field Companion, in the Main Gallery, A landscape longed for: the garden as disturbance in the Project Room, guest curated by Adler Guerrier and Laura Novoa, featuring artists Andrea Bowers, Sandi Haber Fifield, David Hartt, Jim Hodges, Ebony G. Patterson, Ema Ri , Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Onajide Shabaka; The Depths in the Screening Room, guest curated by Beatriz Santiago Munoz, part one featuring videos by Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Sindhu Thirumalaisamy; and Bookleggers Library in our Mobile Studio!
Philadelphia-based artists Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, known for their fantastical moving images and alternate realities, have created a new immersive film installation for Locust Projects’ Main Gallery titled Field Companion. Set in a microcosmic forest, the video at the core of the installation is based loosely on the pine barrens that dot Southern New Jersey near their home. Like many, the duo found refuge and solace throughout the COVID-19 pandemic hiking and foraging in these remote, natural landscapes. As America's social fabric frayed deeply over recent years, they considered forest ecosystems in terms of symbiotic and collaborative relationships that sustain coexistence and community. Learn more here.
Guest curated by Adler Guerrier and Laura Novoa featuring Andrea Bowers, Sandi Haber Fifield, David Hartt, Jim Hodges, Ebony G. Patterson, and Onajide Shabaka and newly commissioned works by Ema Ri and Cristina Lei Rodriguez. A landscape longed for: the garden as disturbance explores the motif of the garden as used by artists in its relation to the cultivation and expression of beauty and knowledge. The works in the exhibition function around images and objects connected to and derived from the study of plants, prompting a reimagining and reinterpretation of the garden as a site for the lyrical arrangement of forms. Learn more here.
Bookleggers Library is in our Mobile Studio with a curated selection of books on flora and fauna related to the exhibitions! Bookleggers Library is a nonprofit mobile library that expands access to free books as a way of building community. Come through, grab a book, enjoy a free cup of coffee, and sit a spell!
Big thanks to our Official Exhibitions Beer Sponsor Tripping Animals Brewing and cocktail sponsors Drifter Spirits!
The shows are on view through February 5, 2022, Wed-Sat | 11am-5pm in the Miami Design District. Part two of The Depths features work by Isabelle Carbonell, Miguel Hilari, colectivo Los Ingrávidos
Field Companion is co-commissioned by Locust Projects and Rowan University Art Gallery. Music by Green House 1976 courtesy of Leaving Records. Special thanks to Gander and White for their support of a landscape longed for: the garden disturbed
Locust Projects 2021-2022 exhibitions and programming are made possible with support from: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, The Children's Trust; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The National Endowment for the Arts Art Works Grant; Susan and Richard Arregui; Hillsdale Fund; the Albert and Jane Nahmad Family Foundation; VIA Art Fund | Wagner Foundation Incubator Grant; Diane and Robert Moss; Elizabeth Bailey; Cowles Charitable Trust; Diane and Werner Grob; Kirk Foundation; Diane and Alan Lieberman; Artis; and the Incubator Fund Supporting Sponsors and Friends.