NADA Miami 2018 Dec. 6-9 Booth 9.14 At the Ice Palace Studios 1400 North Miami Avenue Miami, FL 33136 VIP Preview by Invitation: Thursday, December 6, 10am 2pm Opening Preview by Invitation: Thursday, December 6, 12 2pm Open to the Public: Thursday, December 6, 2 7pm Friday, December 7, 11am 7pm Saturday, December 8, 11am 7pm Sunday, December 9, 11am 5pm
NADA Miami 2018 Dec. 6-9 Booth 9.14 Presenting the works of Michael Luchs and Kylie Lockwood For NADA Miami 2018, Simone DeSousa Gallery is pleased to present the works of artists Michael Luchs and Kylie Lockwood. Separated by nearly five decades, Luchs and Lockwood have a fundamental connection to Detroit. Michael Luchs received his degree from Wayne State University, Detroit, in 1968, and was a pivotal artist in the Cass Corridor era, the first avant-garde movement to form in the city. His work was recently seen in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). Lockwood was born in Detroit, and returned to the city after getting her MFA at Hunter College, New York, in 2010. For both artists, the making of an artwork is a performance, or even a ritual. Their relationship to material is intimate, and untethered to perfecting the materiality s capability. Luchs and Lockwood each produce their own idiosyncratic language guided by an internal logic. While the material processes are central to Michael Luchs artwork, he resists virtuosity. Conventions are replaced with an astute psychological language of marks and gestures that exploits the raw, the awkward, the careless. Here and there, flashes of precision, grace, and subtlety heighten the emotional effects of aggressive gestures. In Kylie Lockwood s work the process of making sculpture has become a way to ask questions about the object s true identity and essence. Her metal and ceramic works are able to imbue objects of contemporary life with the aura of deep, historical time, and often force us to look at things in different and surprising ways by upsetting or transforming the conventional relationship between inside and outside of the body. Both Luchs and Lockwood are producing relevant work to the context of their time, that also present a timeless quality. Simone DeSousa Gallery is excited to present these two works in a combined setting that heightens the experience of their complementary qualities and distinct manifestations.
Still life of ocular openings, 2018 Pigmented porcelain, aluminum, and glass lenses 10 x 29 x 18 inches
Collapsing amphora with pockmarks, 2016 Porcelain 14 x 9 x 9 inches
Concrete Poem 1, 2015 Concrete and jeans 16.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 inches
Like the curl of a dried leaf holding the yoke of an egg, 2018 Bronze, silicone, dried clay, and protein powder 7 x 6.5 x 8.5 in
Eyetrophy in incremental scale shifts, 2018 Installation 4 1 2 5 3 1. Eyetrophy 6, 2018 4. Eyetrophy 4, 2018 2. Eyetrophy 7, 2018 5. Eyetrophy 5, 2018 3. Eyetrophy 3, 2018
Eyetrophies, 2018 Installation
Eyetrophy in uterotubal splay, 2018 69.5 x 18 x 13.5 in
Eyetrophy in uterotubal splay, 2018 Detail
Eyetrophy with alternating flow, 2018 65 16 12 in
Eyetrophy with alternating flow, 2018 Detail
Eyetrophy in forward lean, 2018 60 1/2 17 1/2 9 in
Eyetrophy in forward lean, 2018 Detail
Eyetrophy with bilateral symmetry, 2018 22.5 x 18.5 x 7 in
Kylie Lockwood (b. 1983, Detroit, MI, USA) received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 2005, MFA from Hunter College in New York City in 2010 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. Solo and two person exhibitions include: The Fingertip is an Image Forming Organ of Sight, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN, Statue Maker, Cleopatra s, Brooklyn, NY, and Thinking Colon, Popps Packing, Detroit, MI. Lockwood s work has been included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; Reyes Projects, Birmingham, MI; Lord Ludd in Philadelphia, PA; Synchrotron Radiation Center, Stoughton, WI; Interstate, Brooklyn, NY, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI, among others. She currently lives and works in Detroit, MI.