Memo by Grace, LP is 10 years

Velvet & Silk
by Miguel Trelles & Amy Westpfahl
April 21st – May 5th
Opening Reception April 21st 6pm-10pm
Local Project, Long Island City, NY

Velvet & Silk addresses the intersection of art, politics, and history as well as the interface of indigenous and popular culture in North American society today.

Amy Westpfahl’s work addresses recent/contemporary events while Miguel Trelles reinterprets classic and post-classic Mesoamerican icons.

In Westpfahl’s drawings, the velvet rope acts as a symbol for the exclusionary avatars of social class structures in the United States.

Through various silkscreens, Trelles stresses the endurance of Mesoamerican iconography, highlighting its ritual “sacrifice” content as eminently pertinent today. This telescoping of the ancient into the contemporary sphere is further achieved by projecting/framing the Mesoamerican unto/within popular rock music emblems.

Miguel Trelles & Amy Westpfahl: Velvet & Silk

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The Patriot Acts
by Matti Havens

Video, Installations
March 23 – April 8, 2012
Opening Reception March 23, 2012 7-9pm
Local Project, Long Island City, NY

It is an election year and thoughts of politics and patriotism run high. We have seen important debates on immigration, the winding down of one war and the possibility of another, The Occupy Wall Street movement anthe ineptness of the Super Committee and professional bipartisan politics. All of this has shown the fallibility and ultimate corruptness of the system and the dominant feelings of fear, cynicism and uncertainty.

In his first solo exhibition at Local Project in Long Island City, Matti Havens will be using a variety of mediums including video, sculpture, and performance to address some of the sentiments and issues of the past year and present. In the end the viewer will ask whether or not the positive outweighs the negative. Will fear, greed, negativity, closed mindedness and an intrusive government cause our great nation to crash? Or will the freedom, acceptance, hard work and ingenuity that this nation was founded upon usher in a new era of prosperity?

Matti Havens: The Patriot Acts

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