"Modify, As Needed," a new exhibit at MOCA, showcases artists who use found materials

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At MOCA, the artist will show a 12-by-12-foot section of museum wall whose surface he peeled back until it curled down to the floor.

Denmark's Nina Beier is also creating new work for the show. She has selected used clothes from local sources to represent her interpretation of characteristics and qualities of fashion found around town. In her project, she uses everyday objects such as radiators, chairs, and clothing racks and affixes billboard paper posters onto them with glue.

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Museum of Contemporary Art

770 NE 125th St.
North Miami, FL 33161

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Region: Upper Eastside/Miami Shores/Biscayne Park

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"Modify, As Needed": Opening reception Thursday, September 22, from 7 to 9 p.m. Through November 13 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami; 305-893-6211; mocanomi.org. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday 1 to 9 p.m.; and Sunday noon to 5 p.m.

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"I am producing a new series of works entitled The Demonstrators. It follows a simple principle: hanging posters dipped in poster glue to dry on objects, as one would leave a towel out to dry," Beier explains. "The drying process joins the two objects in an inseparable union, generating something like a wet T-shirt effect."

The artist says her images are selected from photographs available in image banks. "They use the vocabulary that has been developed to predict what we need to express today."

Beier, who has shown her work in Miami during Art Basel, says she collected clothing for her project from area thrift stores. "This selection of clothes can be seen as a type of group portrait of the people here," she says.

Concludes Katrib, MOCA's associate curator: "The inspiration for the exhibition really came from looking at these artists and some of their works... I realized that there were relationships between them that should be articulated."