Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Anya Gallaccio

Biography

Anya Gallaccio attended Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths' College at the University of London, and now lives and works in London. Gallaccio has exhibited extensively, including recent solo exhibitions at the Tate Britain and at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England. Her work is featured in numerous public and private collections such as the Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and South Gallery, London. Gallaccio creates site-specific installations, often using organic materials as her medium. Past projects have included arranging a ton of oranges on a floor, placing a thirty-two ton block of ice in a boiler room, and painting a wall with chocolate. The nature of these materials results in natural processes of transformation and decay, often with unpredictable results. Gallaccio has stated, "I see my works as being a performance and a collaboration . . . There is an unpredictability in the materials and collaborations I get involved in. Making a piece of work becomes about chance - not just imposing will on something, but acknowledging its inherent qualities." To download artist's CV, please click on "Printable PDF of Full Text"

Gallery Exhibitions

love is only a feeling  21 February - 20 March 2004
Anya Gallaccio  13 September - 20 October 2001

Museum Exhibtions

Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena  22 January - 1 May 2005
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham  3 April - 18 May 2003
Tate Britain  16 September 2002 - 26 January 2003

Press

New York Times - New York Times - February, 2008
New York Times - New York Times - July, 2006
Tema Celeste - Tema Celeste - April, 2006
The New York Times - The New York Times - January, 2006
ArtReview - ArtReview - March, 2005
Modern Painters - Modern Painters - March, 2005
Financial Times - Financial Times - February, 2005
Tema Celeste - Tema Celeste - July, 2004
Modern Painters - Modern Painters - September, 2003
Art in America - Art in America - January, 2002
New York Times - New York Times - October, 2001
Time Out New York - Time Out New York - October, 2001
W - W - September, 2001

Publications

Anya Gallaccio - Beat
Anya Gallaccio - Chasing Rainbows
Anya Gallaccio - Ikon Gallery Catalog
Anya Gallaccio - The Look of Things

Selected Works

Motherlode (After the gold rush), 2005 pinewood case of six zinfandel wines 750 ml bottles case dimensions TBD Edition of 250 LM9815


Rêvons d’or, 2006 Bronze cast tree, 12 glazed porcelain apples, rope 181 x 241 x 184 cm


Time is our choice of how to love and why (russet), 2004 cast bronze, ceramic 111 x 140 x 105 inches 281.9 x 355.6 x 266.7 cm LM6930


As long as there were any roads to amnesia and anaethesia still to be explored, 2002 7 felled Oaks variable dimensions Installation at Tate Britain, London LM7129


My, my, hey, hey (Hawthorne tree), 2004 direct cast bronze 126 x 81 x 60 inches 320 x 205.7 x 152.4 cm LM8109


single blue door, 2003 250 red gerbera, glass, wood 90 x 40 x 6 inches 228.6 x 101.6 x 15.2 cm LM7065


till the stars all burn away, 2003 gold-plated cast bronze 33.86 x 11.42 x 3.54 inches 86 x 29 x 9 cm LM7315


The power to be true to you, 2003 gold lamé hand-knotted fishing net 120 x 86 inches 304.8 x 218.4 cm LM7314


the way things are -- green with red, 2000 c-print 39.37 x 118.11 inches 100 x 300 cm Edition of 5 LM3559


absolute, 1996 four cubes of ice 100 x 100 x 100 cm LM5865


Untitled, 1996 black candles on glass 50 x 50 cm LM5864


into the blue, 1993 one ton of salt bricks on Bournemouth beach variable LM5869