Donna Huanca “ECHO IMPLANT”
Joe Sheftel Gallery
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Joe Sheftel Gallery is pleased to present ECHO IMPLANT, Donna Huanca’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
For ECHO IMPLANT, Donna Huanca creates an immersive installation featuring new paintings and sculptures that will be activated by scheduled performances in the exhibition space.
Donna Huanca’s installations fuse tactile materials, such as clothing and ephemera to create performative architectural collages. Working primarily with deconstructed clothing, dipped in paint and solidified, her sculptural gestures pause a once-fluid life of the garment. During Huanca’s durational performances the works interact with the vulnerability of live models, camouflaged and infused into the sculpture, giving life to otherwise static artworks
Born in Chicago, Huanca received a BFA in Painting from the University of Houston and studied at Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany. In 2012, Huanca was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to live and work in Mexico City.
Recent exhibitions include: PSYCHOTRIA ELATA at Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, SADE ROOM (famously reclusive) at MoMA PS1 Printshop New York, Look where it got us, MonCHERI Brussels, Belgium, SEEING AURAS at ltd Los Angeles, SCRYING THREATS, Queer Thoughts, Chicago, RAW MATERIAL at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, 2013 Arnhem Fashion Biennale, Netherlands, Pioneer Voices at the Gallery of Northern Norway, and PANIC FEAR CRYING FITS at PRETEEN Gallery, Mexico.
Additional performances will be held on:
Sunday, February 15, 3-6pm
Sunday, March 1, 3-6pm
Sunday, March 8, 3-6pm
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Schedule
from February 05, 2015 to March 08, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-02-05 from 19:00 to 21:00
The opening performance will feature garments by Women’s History Museum, (Mattie Barringer/ Amanda McGowan) in the gallery storefront.