Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT
April 2, 2022 - February 5, 2023
Free
Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca (b. 1980, Chicago, IL) creates work that destabilizes the male gaze while exploring femme and indigenous, specifically Andean, narratives and mark-making. Huanca’s installations encompass painting, sculpture, and live performance, and are characteristically created for, and integrated with, the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented. Her art is deeply invested in ritual practice, both drawn from Andean culture and exploring ritual at large as a means for transcendence, meditation, and transformation.
For her commissioned exhibition at the Henry, the artist is creating an architecturally immersive environment, consisting of a vast stage of interlocking ovoid/cellular forms, landscaped with white sand and supporting six mirrored “screen” sculptures, along with a selection of other sculptural work. Four mural-size paintings surround the stage, each representing one of the four seasons. As viewers journey through the space, they are invited to experience a kaleidoscopic engagement with their own reflection and the works, as well as sound and olfactory pieces. A complete sensory experience, the installation aims to evoke a slippage of space and time inviting participants to both find and lose themselves. Throughout the length of the exhibition, the Henry, the artist, and cultural performers of all genres will work together to produce a series of programs in dialogue with the exhibition’s themes.
Huanca’s exhibition is the first commissioned work supported by the Richard E. and Jane Lang Davis New Works Fund. A complimentary publication will accompany the exhibition.
Artist Bio
Donna Huanca completed her education at the University of Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison; and Städelschule, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She has completed several residencies, including at SmackMellon, Brooklyn; Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; and Headland Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Huanca is the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship; Art Matters Grant, New York; Francis Greenberg Award, Art OMI, New York; and DeGolyer Grant, Dallas Museum of Art. She has had solo exhibitions at the Marfa Ballroom; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; and MoMA PS1, New York. Huanca has featured her work in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium; Bermis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; and Malmö Konsthalle, Sweden. Her work is held in the collections of the Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China; Belvedere, Vienna, Austria; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Details
- Start:
- April 2
- End:
- February 5, 2023
- Cost:
- Free
- Event Categories:
- on view, Seattle, Washington
- Event Tags:
- andean art, Bollivian Artist, Donna Huanca, Henry Art Gallery, Indigenous Art, Magma Slit, painting, performance art, sculpture, Seattle Art, Washington Art
- https://henryart.org/exhibitions/donna-huanca?utm_source=Patron+Preview+invite+list+%284%2F1%2F22%29&utm_campaign=d1ac3ca4ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_28_08_34_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0038ee79aa-d1ac3ca4ea-284277925
Organizer
Other
- Accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible, Service Animals allowed
- Diversity
- BIPOC artist(s), Women artist(s)
- Event Type
- Exhibition, Gallery, Visual Art
- Pandemic Info
- Open
- Kid Friendly
- Yes
Venue
- Henry Art Gallery
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15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St
Seattle, WA 98195 + Google Map
