Sound & Furiosa
October 3–26, 2025
Beca Acosta and Marcy Chevali
Curated by Priscilla Fusco
Opening reception Friday October 3, 6-8pm
Press Release
Underdonk is proud to present Sound & Furiosa, a two-person exhibition featuring Beca Acosta and Marcy Chevali.
We are in hot times. Acosta and Chevali shape materials with heat. Acosta tungsten arc welds steel into sexualized limbs, studded with pencils and stiletto heels. Chevali constructs nets – a stand-in for safety or entrapment – out of flame-worked glass, wire and yarn, that swell into biomorphic forms.
This marriage of glass and steel is frequently pushed into the predictable skyscraper or high-end dinner and glassware sold in the museum store.These artists reconfigure heat, steel, and glass into works that form a delicate landscape where action supersedes words. Chevali’s glass nets, suspended by thin wires, seemingly risk smashing onto the floor but are buoyed by the lightness of their fabrication. Acosta’s steel toes and sharp heels, rooted or airborne, mix desire with weaponry.
These objects possess tension and agency: wires and hooks keep the work in motion while simultaneously holding it in place. Shiny surfaces and suspended forms reflect the activities in the room, the movement of air, the change of light. They shape a landscape of action.
Beca Acosta integrates metal fabrication, kinetic sculpture, performance, and microscope photography. A native of Dallas, Texas, she is half Puerto Rican and half Chicano. She investigates how bodies intersect with mobility, freedom, and sexuality. Her work has been exhibited at Washington State University, John St. Gallery, Flashburn film festival, Dank, Brooklyn Metal Works, Amos Eno Gallery, and POWRPLNT, and published in Precog Magazine. Beca has been a visiting critic at University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design and invited to discuss her practice at FEMEETING in Windsor, Canada, and LASER (Leonardo Arts and Sciences Evening Rendezvous) in NYC. In 2024, she received a STEAM plant grant to create microscope photography, which she exhibited at Pratt Institute. Currently, Beca is focused on the intersections of the arts, sciences, and the existential politics of our contemporary climate.
Marcy Chevali is an artist born in Cleveland and currently based in New York. She has a BFA from The Ohio State University and an MFA from Maine College of Art. Her work has been shown in galleries and artists’ spaces including Queens Museum of Art, Noyes Museum, Aicon Gallery, AIR Gallery, and Gallery Aferro, and with organizations such as South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, ABC No Rio, and Project for an Empty Space. She has attended numerous residencies including Edward Albee Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Urban Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Willapa Bay AiR. She has received grants from the Queens Council of the Arts and FST Studio Projects.
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