The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Packaged Black and Donna Huanca Exhibition

Institution
Henry Art Gallery / University of Washington
Grant Cycle
Spring 2020
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
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Barbara Earl Thomas. Installation view of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Barbara Earl Thomas. Installation view of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Barbara Earl Thomas, Cinderella Redressed, 2021. Hand cut tyvek, paper cut with hand printed color, voile fabric. Courtesy of the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery, New York. Installation view of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Barbara Earl Thomas, Man in Waiting, 2020. Paper cut with hand printed color. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Spike Mafford.
Installation view of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Derrick Adams. Installation view of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, Rotating Lantern, 2021. Cut paper images by artists inserted into lantern mechanism. Courtesy of the artist, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, and Salon 94, New York. Installation view of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Derrick Adams, Queen of Everything, 2017. Mixed media collage on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Adam Reich.
Donna Huanca, Installation view of DONNA HUANCA: MAGMA SLIT, 2022, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jonathan Vanderweit, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Donna Huanca, Installation view of DONNA HUANCA: MAGMA SLIT, 2022, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jonathan Vanderweit, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Donna Huanca, Installation view of DONNA HUANCA: MAGMA SLIT, 2022, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jonathan Vanderweit, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.
Donna Huanca, Installation view of DONNA HUANCA: MAGMA SLIT, 2022, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jonathan Vanderweit, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery.

Packaged Black is a joint exhibition of Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas. It will be a collaborative, multi-media installation of new work developed from the artists’ shared interest in questions of representation, Black identity, display, and performance.  The exhibition and its corresponding events will examine the condition of being simultaneously hyper-visible and invisible and will work to reconfigure Black visibility through visual and narrative strategies.

Donna Huanca is the first solo exhibition for the Germany-based Bolivian-American artist. Huanca demonstrates a deep investment in Bolivian ritual practices and the exhibition will include mixed-media canvases; floor pieces; a curved platform that will act as a stage for performances; a large, niched structure resembling an altarpiece; and standing sculptures, all painted and decorated in conversation with the bodies of performers, live models who take choreographic direction from Huanca and whose bodies Huanca paints.

1986

Warhol painted more than 100 works related to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, which some have read as complex reckoning of his homosexuality, Catholicism, and mortality in response to witnessing AIDS devastate the gay community.