Locust Projects presents David Kennedy Cutler, Michael DeLucia, and David Scanavino + Nice ‘n Easy

Saturday, April 29th from 6:30-9:30pm join us at Locust Projects for the Opening Receptions of David Kennedy Cutler, Michael DeLucia, and David Scanavino in ‘Under Water‘, as well as Nice ‘n Easy in ‘Open Up‘. Enjoy a Conversation with the exhibiting artists from 6:30-7:30pm and an Opening Reception from 7:30-9:30pm. Exhibitions on view through June 10, 2017.

Under Water, a collaboration between New York-based artists Michael DeLucia, David Kennedy Cutler and David Scanavino. Their room-scale installation reinterprets a pastoral beach scene across two and three dimensions, with synthetic sun and moon rising over a pixelated ocean. Evoking ambiguities of scale and dimension, the artists tile, wallpaper and construct this environment with CNC-routed forms and computer-generated textures. Under Water is a virtual landscape thatimports its digitality into physical reality.

Open Up, features Miami-based artists Nice ‘n Easy (Allison Matherly and Jeffrey Noble) who use their signature subtropical vernacular style to create a new installation that centers around tiled benches bathed in a warm florescent glow. Treating posture as a proxy for intimacy, the benches–with angled seat backs– invite visitors to sit back or lean forward in a binary of comfort and discomfort, respectively. The comfortable configuration faces a video of the artists entering the ocean, while the other positions its sitter in direct engagement with others in the space. Open up stages a microcosm of human interaction and the warmth, frigidity, desire, and hesitation that can surface through these encounters.