Second Saturday Quick Picks
Locust Projects presents Decollage by New York-based artist Francesca DiMattio. DiMattio, once known for making paintings that create the illusion of collage, she now delves deep into the medium of actual collage for the first time. For this exhibition there’ll be ten foot high banners with layers upon layers of Xerox images, culled from found magazine sources, books, and the artists own paintings, which are peeled and torn into impressive strips and patterns with dashes of watercolor and acrylic added for emphasis. The artist has also created a site-specific mural collage, culled from clips of imagery evoking the scenery of Miami.
Meanwhile, at David Castillo gallery this Saturday will be the unveiling of Miami-based performance artist, Susan Lee-Chun’s first ever solo exhibition at the gallery. Known predominantly for her performance based work, the exhibition, Everybody Suz-ercise!, expands further the personality of the three artist-created characters known as the “Suz” to explore ideas of racial and cultural identity. With her latest work, the artist parodies the fitness and lifestyle industry with an experience-based installation modeled after a gym.
Finally, Agustina Woodgate’s solo show at the new Dimensions Variable art space has the Miami-based artist constructing the second installation in a new series of fantastical and surreal landscape-based installations. With this work, she’ll be using a chandelier with a functional light fixture and thousands of meticulously assembled clear strands of plastic streaming over to the ground to create the illusion of a waterfall for a piece entitled, fittingly enough, Endlessly Falling.