Matt Savitsky

Shoot The Lobster LA is pleased to announce Mid-City Angels, Matt Savitsky's first solo presentation in Los Angeles.

Mid-City Angels is a pseudo-residency where the exhibited works build over time. Savitsky will move his studio practice into the gallery, and every weekend invite a series of guests to collaborate. Each session will be a performance, open to the public, and documented. Unscheduled visitors will be able to observe this process or may themselves become subjects, or directors.

This project is a continuation of Savitsky's interest in defining the absent figure; creating form out of absence. Blending sculpture and performance-based processes, Savitsky's work probes ideas about gender, the body, and intimacy, while constructing theatrical environments.

Please join Matt Savitsky and STL LA in the making of mid-city angels.

The first day of open performances is Saturday, September 30, 12-5pm.

"At the end of the phrases, it breaks, and that break makes it so sweet that it seems borne up by the music of angels, of which I feel the horror, for angels fill me with horror, being, as I imagine, neither mind nor matter, white, filmy and frightening, like the translucent bodies of ghosts."

- Jean Genet, "Our Lady of Flowers," 1943