Donna Huanca
ECHO IMPLANT
Installation View
Donna Huanca
ECHO IMPLANT
Performance Installation View
Donna Huanca
Summer, 2015
Plaster, latex, paint on canvas
24 x 18 x 1 3/4 inches
61 x 45.7 x 4.5 cm
Donna Huanca
BUKKET, 2015
Ceramic, fabric, wood, Plexiglas
54 x 18 x 18 inches
184 x 91.5 x 61 cm
Donna Huanca
ECHO IMPLANT
Performance Installation View
Donna Huanca
Trimester, 2015
Knit pantyhose, latex, metal
61 x 19 x 13 inches
155 x 48.3 x 33 cm
Donna Huanca
ECHO IMPLANT
Installation View
Donna Huanca
ECHO IMPLANT
Performance Installation View
Donna Huanca
Mom, 2015
Paint and latex on reflective material
47 x 39 x 2 inches
119.3 x 99 x 5 cm
Donna Huanca
Screiii, 2015
PLatex, velvet, nylon, metal
58 x 30 x 22 inches
147.3 x 76 x 56 cm
Donna Huanca
ECHO IMPLANT
Installation View
Donna Huanca
JT, 2015
Latex and velvet on nylon
52 x 44 x 2 3/4 inches
132 x 111.7 x 7 cm
Donna Huanca
CaveWoman, 2015
Makeup on wool
59 x 37 x 1 1/2 inches
150 x 94 x 4 cm
Donna Huanca
WET, 2015
Latex and velvet on linen
25 x 24 x 1.5 inches
63.5 x 61 x 4 cm
EC }
HO
IMPLANT
In war we are all prisoners
Joe Sheftel Gallery is pleased to present ECHO IMPLANT, Donna Huanca’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. An opening reception and the first performance will be held on Thursday, February 5, from 7-9pm. The exhibition will be on view through March 8, 2015.
Additional performances will be held on:
Sunday, February 15, 3-6pm
Sunday, March 1, 3-6pm
Sunday, March 8, 3-6pm
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 City, Mexico.
*Clothing worn during the performances made by Women’s History Museum (Mattie Barringer/Amanda McGowan).
For press inquiries and images, please contact the gallery at mail@joesheftelgallery.com.