July 10-17, Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
Visitors are welcome to observe LAB MFA artist Nick Gilmore activating the Project Room.
Saturday August 10, 7pm
Conversation with LAB MFA artist Nick Gilmore
Followed by a closing reception in conjunction with Second Saturday Art Walk
Exhibitions on view through August 10, 2013
Gallery hours July 16 - August 10, Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm
We will be open for the remainder of August by appointment only.
LAB (LOCUST ART BUILDERS)
Participating Artists: Macki Alvarez-Mena, Cindy Becerra, Lisette Carballo, Ellana Cohen, D’anyerlo Duque, Mathew Figueroa, Juan J Garcia, Ilan Gihuly, Catalina Ruiz Luzio, Bernadata Majauskaite, Dillon McDermott, Jon Millan, Daniela Perez, Lisette del Pino, Summer Pizura, Karen Ramirez, Armand Reyes, Antonio Robbins, Ethan Romano, Gisselle Ruiz, Magdiel Santana, Melodie Suarez, Maile Torres, Juan “Tanooki” Vinasco.
Now celebrating its 15th year of exhibiting experimental contemporary art, Locust Projects is pleased to present the 4th year of a collaborative exhibition by a group of 25 South Florida High School students selected through an open call. This year marks the largest LAB group to date. Under the direction of practicing contemporary visual artists Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters and Loriel Beltran, students are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue and manage all aspects of its production in a three week summer intensive. Students also visit art institutions on guided field trips and have question and answer periods with top art professionals from the community.
The students, currently attending American Sr. High, Miami Beach Sr. High, Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, Design and Architecture Sr. High, Dr. Michael Krop High, Hialeagh Sr. High, Hialeah-Miami Lakes High, New World School of the Arts High, and TERRA Environmental Research Insitute were selected from an open call by a committee of local art professionals.
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit’s 15 year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, LAB, developed in Locust Projects’ 5,000 square foot space in Miami’s Design District, culminates with an opening reception where students’ parents, teachers, and friends are invited to celebrate with Miami’s art community on Second Saturday Art Walk in July.
The goal of LAB is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative allows young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
ABOUT THE MENTOR ARTISTS:
MONICA LOPEZ DE VICTORIA
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, night life VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, costuming, installations, and interactive video. The TM Sisters’ 2009 exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. Their work has been featured in publications including L’Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews. The sisters’ work has been included in the international traveling exhibition Uncertain States of America; the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at David Castillo Gallery, Miami.
LORIEL BELTRAN
Loriel Beltran was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1985. At age fifteen he moved to Miami where he obtained a BFA from New World School of the Arts in Electronic Intermedia. Beltran has exhibited at the Wolfsonian Museum's Bridge Tenders House in Miami Beach and has been part of group exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum, the Museo de Arte Acarigua Araure in Acarigua, Venezuela, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida, and has had solo exhibitions at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery and Locust Projects in Miami. Beltran is also part owner and co-director of the artist run gallery GUCCIVUITTON which is in operation since April 2013.
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