SAC: Toast to the Artists / Celebrating ‘Second Skin’ Exhibit / Fashion Intervention, Noon to 7 PM, Dec 20th

You are invited to Toast to the Artists at Southampton Arts Center on Saturday, December 20, celebrating the exhibition Second Skin, curated by Estrellita Brodsky. The exhibition explores the intersection of art and fashion through innovative contemporary works.

From 12:00–7:00 PM, artist Gabriela Galván will present a live Fashion Intervention, transforming the gallery into an active site of creative exchange. Visitors are invited to bring garments they consider worn out or ready to be discarded and witness them reimagined through spontaneous, sculptural intervention. This participatory performance invites reflection on transformation, sustainability, and the poetic possibilities of everyday materials.

Join us from 5:00–7:00 PM for Toast to the Artists, featuring complimentary cocktails, cookies, and hot chocolate. The reception offers a warm, festive setting to gather and engage with the artists and curators shaping this dynamic exhibition.

Gabriela Galván BioGabriela Galván is a multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on the concept of transformation. Working across installation, public art, sculpture, drawing, design, performance, and video, she develops site-specific projects grounded in research and her understanding of cultural and ecological relationships.

Her practice is deeply rooted in sustainability, using space, materials, and objects with care to encourage sensorial, participatory experiences across different ages and cultures. Her work refuses fixed form, existing instead as a living, evolving process.

Currently, Gabriela’s work explores live flowers and plants as a medium, furthering her investigation into growth, impermanence, and the poetic potential of living materials.