Locust Projects presents BOG-MIA by Virginia Poundstone

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

Locust Projects presents BOG-MIA, a new installation by New York-based sculptor Virginia Poundstone, known for her exquisitely crafted sculptures that examine the art historical, scientific and economic significance of flowers.
The works in this exhibition take their material and formal cues from the logistical machinations of the cut flower industry in Colombia. Miami is the main point of entry for the products of this industry: retail bouquets containing carnations, roses and baby’s breath, which enter Poundstone’s practice as artifacts of a vast industrial system producing the aesthetics of popular emotion.

BOG-MIA is the second of Poundstone’s epic seven-part exploration of the international flower trade, which she began in the Valley of the Flowers in the Indian Himalays and will continue at an international auction house in the Netherlands; the headquarters of the California industry; an Ikebana master’s garden in Japan; Kenyan flower fields; and an expedition with a botanist discovering new varieties of flowers in the South Pacific.

Poundstone received a BA/BFA in Writing and Fine Arts from Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design at The New School for Social Research, and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York and teaches at Parsons The New School of Design and the Maryland Institute College of the Arts (MICA) in Baltimore.

Locust Projects
3852 North Miami Avenue,
Miami Fl 33127
305.576.8570
locustprojects.org

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