Project Room: Alan Gutierrez, Nobody knows me better than you at Locust Projects

Saturday, January 18, 2014. 7:00 – 10:00 pm: Opening Reception

Centered around a series of paintings, the exhibition utilizes a suite of theatrical production equipment as an arbitrary means to reframe the exhibition space as a site of production. Throughout the course of the exhibition, the artist will change the installation into different iterations, embracing process and the malleable nature of rehearsal.

In Gutierrez on words: I’m not one for metaphors, especially visual ones. The “rehearsal studio” as a space is one I think of quite literally. The continual danger of it to possibly come into play as a metaphor began when I made the choice to exist predominantly within that “space.” As quickly as these things can be consumed, for lack of individual expression, they stand for a lot. They stand for an unquantifiable amount of sheer effort. Regardless of the possibility that the love that drives the effort exists for the purpose of acknowledgement and recognition, the love (for the production) exists.

Gutierrez was born in Miami, where he currently lives and works. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Emerson Dorsch (Miami) and Kosmeticsalon Babette (Berlin). With Low Lives, a multi-venue group exhibition of video-performance, his work has exhibited both nationally and abroad in institutions that include the Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Art (Japan), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá (Colombia), Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT), Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn, NY), and SOMArts (San Francisco, CA). Gutierrez received a 2013 Tigertail Artist Access Grant from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.

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