Talks

Ashley Dawson’s free and public presentation, Extreme City, looks at attempts to build resilience in New York following Hurricane Sandy, asking what such efforts say not just for other cities such as Miami but about the shape of the urban future in general. As Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy demonstrated in New Orleans and New York, vulnerability to “natural” disasters is above all … +

As a part of Locust Roundtables (site-specific work venue), the artist Jacqueline Falcone presents Bed and Breakfast. This piece embraces context and situation-specificity by placing artworks and exhibitions in the intimate setting of Falcone’s private bedroom. This roundtable invites us to consider the presentation of art outside of the traditional contexts of museums or galleries and the impact that has upon the … +

Cannonball Artist-in-Residence Christopher Cozier will speak about the potential free/play spaces that Caribbean artists are constantly imagining. As the established idea of the Caribbean—as a viable fiction; as a site of exchanges—is an old, owned product traded between various beneficiaries that predominantly seek to control and exclude, Caribbean artists generate defiant spaces that fall between categorizations and established properties. Resisting the on-going … +

Cannonball Artist-in-Residence and current CIFO Grant and Commissions Award-winner Alice Miceli will present an artist’s talk on recent works that explore the phenomenon of impenetrable places that, even in our globalized world, remain somehow off the map. Introducing various works, including her current research into minefields, the talk will ultimately focus on a recent project centered on the creation of visualization patterns … +

For this Art@CMS exhibition, works were selected from artist/scientist collaborations as well as video artists who were invited to create pieces inspired by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics that sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near … +

Each year, in celebration of Art Basel Miami Beach, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University hosts Breakfast in the Park. This event draws hundreds of art enthusiasts, patrons, collectors, gallery owners and artists from around the world, many of whom are visiting Miami for Art Basel. Each year a noted sculptor is invited to speak. Guests enjoy … +

ArtCenter will host a conversation with Adler Guerrier, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Allison Matherly. Moderated by ArtCenter’s artistic director, Susan Caraballo. The center continues with its series, On Location with Dimensions Variable (DV), an artist-run space based in downtown Miami and currently celebrating its five year anniversary. DV has organized an exhibition with Nellie Appleby, Allison Matherly and Cristina Lei … +

This is the New York-based artist Sarah Crowner’s first exhibition in Miami. Crowner is known for her abstract paintings, which she creates by sewing together panels of raw and painted canvas. In the main exhibition space, Crowner will create her largest work to date a playfully immersive installation that doubles as a theatrical stage. Hung with colorful voile curtains and painted backdrops … +

Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 2:00pm Virginia Overton will discuss her most recent projects and inspiration for Flat Rock, her first solo-museum exhibition in the U.S.

Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 1:00pm The MDC Museum of Art + Design (MOAD) presents a free public lecture from Rachel Weiss, Latin American Art Researcher, Lecturer and Author of To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art.

Friday, April 25, 2014 at 2:00pm Broward College’s North Campus expands on its inaugural Artist Talk series with a new 2013-2014 lineup of some of South Florida’s most groundbreaking locally and internationally acclaimed visual artists.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at 7:00pm On Wednesday, April 23, Locust Talks hosts Jenelle Porter, the Mannion Family Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston in Boston, Massachusetts.

Felice Grodin Moderated by Gean Moreno: Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 7:00pmChristy Gast Moderated by Camila Marambio: Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 7:30pm Christy Gast: Inholdings: Locust Projects is pleased to present Inholdings, an exhibition of new work by Miami-based artist Christy Gast. The two works in this exhibition, a full-scale textile replica of a Nike Hercules missile and a single-channel video … +

March 13, 2014, 7:00pm to 9:00 pm For the opening of his solo exhibition, Imagined Landscapes, Miami-based, Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié discusses his new work with PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.

February 22, 2014 from 11:00am to 1:00pm Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston have photographed the same things – barbershops, benches, hands, roads, signs –