Saturday, March 16, 2013

Conversation with exhibiting artists: 6:30pm
WADE KAVANAUGH & STEPHEN B. NGUYEN
HANNAH WHITAKER

Opening receptions: 7:30-10pm

On view through April 26, 2013
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-5pm

Now celebrating its 15th year of exhibiting experimental contemporary art, Locust Projects is pleased to present a site-specific installation by the New York-based collaborative duo Wade Kavanaugh & Stephen B. Nguyen. Known for undulating installations of twisted and gnarled paper that engulf spaces and surround the viewer, Kavanaugh and Nguyen will create an immersive three-dimensional drawing based on their impressions of the Everglades, where they were artists in residence in February with the AIRIE program. Their practice focuses on the collaborative process itself, resulting in abstractions of the entangled mangrove roots, waving sawgrass, and muscular storm clouds of the Everglades waterscape.

Kavanaugh and Nguyen have collaborated since 2005. The artists regard the collaborative process as a platform to articulate the collective processing of what they see, and probe the visual foundations of perception and imagination. The resulting work is a conflation of the two artists’ perception of the same phenomena.