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Joe Sheftel Gallery is pleased to present ECHO IMPLANT, Donna Huanca’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The first performance will take place during the opening reception.

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

*The opening performance will feature garments by Women’s History Museum, (Mattie Barringer/ Amanda McGowan) in the gallery storefront.