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Signed and dated by artist, verso oil, sand on digital print on canvas
59 1/16 x 44 1/2 inches (150 x 113 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery
This exceptional work is being made available through a generous donation by our honoree, to benefit moCa Cleveland. Please inquire with interest in advance of the benefit to Megan Reich at mreich@moCacleveland.org.
Estimated Retail Value: $60,000
Starting Price: $30,000
Donna Huanca is a boundary-pushing multidisciplinary artist who creates immersive environments using sculpture, performance, sound, scent, and painting. Responding to specific architectural spaces, Huanca creates surreal installations that evoke slippages in time, space, and form, providing a means for meditation, transformation, and transcendance. The surfaces of Huanca’s paintings are built upon images of bodies photographed during her performances. This panting, KIMBERLITE FUR, was created for her 2023 installation at Sean Kelly Gallery. Using only her hands, Huanca layers vibrant hues of oil paint, sand, and other natural materials to create tantalizing textures that camouflage the underlying image. Referencing feminine labor and the body, these corpulent paintings transform into visceral topographies of entropy and renewal.
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Donna Huanca
Donna Huanca (b. 1980, Chicago, IL; lives and works internationally) received her BFA from the University of Houston and studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. She has presented major solo exhibitions at institutions including the Belvedere Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, and Copenhagen Contemporary, and has curated projects at the Whitechapel Gallery. Her work has also been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and internationally across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Huanca’s work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Reina Sofía, and the Rubell Museum, among others.
