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"I Love This Question" by Dakota Sica Opening

Where: Java Studios Other details: On Friday, artist Dakota Sica opened his newest solo exhibit "I Love This Question" at Java Studios in Greenpoint. The show was filled with pieces comprised of various materials and artifacts that Sica put together to create a "nod to nightlife." While guests had cocktails and observed the artwork to a soundtrack provided by Gillian Sagansky, we caught up with the burgeoning artist to find our more about his work: There are a lot of diverse pieces in the exhibit, what inspired this series? Dakota Sica: A lot of this new work is mostly found object, so I'll collect a lot of objects that speak to me. My studio is packed floor to ceiling, and I'll just start pulling from these objects and curating situations or paintings or installations. With this work it was actually a nod to nightlife. The disco ball and the neon lit sign are distinct pieces that hark back to nightlife. DS: Actually the saying was by a friend of mine from a conversation we had in a night club, and it's actually a nod to the 'All Evil Things' sign in Electric Room. I was kind of appropriating from these different environments that I had been spending time in and almost stealing their materials and stealing artifacts from that environment, and then recreating a situation where it was kind of spun on its head, or made you think back to the seediness of that night, nightlife, or yourself. [Dakota Sica] Do you go out to clubs often? DS: I mean I hate to say that I do do that, but I find the scene so interesting. There's almost a whole class system, even in the nightclub, so that kind of environment, to see how it's tiered, to see how people are treated or how people interact, I've found very interesting. Do you know what's next for your artwork? DS: More collecting, more archiving, more interacting, more experimenting. Because the objects, they always find you, they find you at 3am on the street corner. A lot of these things I've collected like that, getting out of a club and seeing something on the street. You'll just grab something? DS: Of course, of course. And then I curate that back into the context of art, and bring those everyday objects into this setting. [Tiffany Mai, Abel Daniel] [Lily Montemarano, Stephanie Williams]