Page 5 - Locust Projects News Today

The divine feminine interventions of Vickie Pierre on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art Vickie Pierre with visitor at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. BOCA RATON, FL .- Like the town crier in a fractured fairy tale, “Be My Herald of What’s to Come” rings in Vickie Pierre’s premiere solo museum show at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Grounded in the Arts and Crafts movement, her installations have a storybook feel. A fractured fairy tale is, after all, a new twist on an old story, reimagined a...

This month sees the return of Bhakti Baxter to Miami at Nina Johnson, while Oolite Arts explores humanity's lost connection to nature in "Natural Transcendence."

Join award-winning writers Patricia Engel and Edwidge Danticat on Thursday for a virtual discussion about Engles new novel, Infinite Country, hosted by Books & Books. The story follows Talia as she desperately searches for a way back to her family after being incarcerated following an impulsive act of violence. Her father is waiting for her in Bogotá with a ticket to the U.S., where the rest of her family resides. Infinite Country is a tale of family, love, and sacrifice and explores what i...

March 8, 2021 The Department of Fine Arts presents an artist talk with Los Angeles-based artist Kori Newkirk, supported by the Forst Endowed Visiting Artist Program. Kori Newkirk creates mixed media artworks often inspired from cast-off objects found in his local environs of downtown Los Angeles. By using unpredictable materials such as pony beads, pomade and hair extensions, Newkirk astounds us by articulating complex ideas about our cultural memory. Newkirk’s provocative works, inflected an...

"You are surrounded by videos of what it would be like to be on top of the building," she says. "It is supposed to take you away." The projections — which videographer Pedro Wazzan shot from above at twilight, using a camera on a drone — document Tommerups process: how she "liberates" her canvases before they enter into a gallery space. "For the first time, I was able to document pulling up all of the work onto the roof of the building and then, consequently, tossing the work down," she say...

EXHIBITION OPEN CALL - PROJECT ROOM - EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 6 Locust Projects invites local, national, and international artists to apply for the opportunity to access the space and resources to create ambitious, large-scale new work in our 400 sq ft PROJECT ROOM. Proposals are reviewed by a rotating jury comprised of local, national and international artists that have