Locust Projects: Antonia Wright and Katie Bell

Saturday, September 10th from 6:30-9pm join us at Locust Projects for the opening reception of Miami artist Antonia Wright and Brooklyn-based artist Katie Bell. Conversation with the artist(s) at 6:30pm / Opening reception from 7:30-9pm. Exhibition runs through October 8, 2016.

Antonia Wright: Under the water was sand, then rocks, miles of rocks, then fire
Miami artist Antonia Wright’s immersive installation inverts day and night, surrounding the viewer with a maze of suspended Night Blooming Jasmine plants. During the day, the dark, jasmine-scented gallery will create a natural screening room for a video work featuring the artist falling through a frozen lake. As the day draws to an end, a timer will activate the lighting, deactivate the videos and transition the space into a sculptural light installation, as the jasmine flowers close. Wright’s installation engages the senses to provoke a heightened emotional state.

Katie Bell: Backsplash
As part of her exhibition titled Backsplash, Brooklyn-based artist Katie Bell will present two site-specific installations, in Locust Projects’ front and back rooms. Working with materials that include wood, laminate, linoleum, plaster, paint, rope, and fragments of hot tubs, Bell will create sculptural paintings that seem to teeter on the walls of the space. Constructed from locally sourced found materials, the works appear frozen in flight, as though they have been caught in the middle of a violent storm.