Anya Gallaccio: When black is burned
Upcoming exhibition
Overview
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14, 5-8pm
At ONE, Quint Gallery presents When black is burned, a single obsidian wall sculpture by Gallaccio. This show opens alongside several other major exhibitions opening Saturday March 14th across the Bread & Salt building.
Obsidian is a natural occurring volcanic glass is formed from rapidly cooling lava of an explosive or volatile eruption. In 2014, she cut and polished a number of roughly edged slabs of this material, creating a mirrored surface. Like her mineral drawings, these stone works also operate in geologic time and can be considered as a counterpoint from her works that are based in ephemerality. Simultaneously taking place across the Bread & Salt building is Gallaccio's Beautiful Minds, her ongoing project of 3-D clay printing Devils Tower in Wyoming, as part of the INSITE exhibition Erratic Fields.
Gallaccio was born in Scotland and lived in London until 2008, when she moved to San Diego to join the faculty of the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego where she is now Faculty Emerita. She attended Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College at the University of London, and first gained public recognition in the late 1980s as part of a cohort of young artists brought together by the Freeze exhibitions in London, curated by Damien Hirst. Her work is featured in numerous international public and private collections, with solo exhibitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; SculptureCenter, New York, NY; Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom; and Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom, among many others. Her permanent commissions are located at The Whitworth, Manchester, United Kingdom, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland; and Houghton Hall, Norfolk, United Kingdom. In 2023, she was awarded the Kenneth Armitage Foundation fellowship in London and was nominated for the Turner Prize, resulting in a survey exhibition of her work at the Turner Contemporary in Margate in 2024. The same year, she was awarded the commission for London’s first HIV/AIDS Memorial. She now lives and works between San Diego and London.
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