AHO FINE ARTS / Gina Fuentes Walker / Lebenslauf

Gina Fuentes Walker combines translucent materials with small and multiple photographic images to create installations that respond to ambient light and reflect familiar details of her urban and architectural surroundings. This new series of botanical abstractions explores the psychology of space by challenging our perception of what we see and experience. Printed on acetate and mounted on panes of glass, silhouettes of trees and branches create delicate patterns suggesting tributaries or blood vessels just beneath the skin. Informed by an academic background in anthropology and documentary media, her work has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Smithsonian Institution, Chashama and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has had solo exhibitions in Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. Her site-specific installations include, Map:Spot on, an illustrated walking tour of commonplace objects and architectural details for the Dumbo Arts Center festival under the bridge 2007. Upcoming projects include a site-specific installation for the Kunst Tage Rhein-Erft in Cologne, Germany and a solo exhibition at The Lost Horse Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fuentes Walker is also an independent curator and a Co-Founder/Director of artHARLEM, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary Harlem artists. She has also curated and juried exhibitions in Virginia and New York. Fuentes Walker lives and works in New York City.

untitled transparencies and untitled tributaries or capillaries explore the psychology of space by challenging our daily perception of small details we see and experience. This series of botanical abstractions defines the space between two surfaces by using translucent materials and ambient light to convey the sense of a three dimensional image. Printed on acetate and mounted on panes of glass and Plexiglas, silhouettes of trees and branches create delicate patterns suggesting tributaries or blood vessels just beneath the skin. When they rest on a ledge and lean against a white wall, they play with our sense of perspective by casting a shadow and creating a triangular projection. New York. May 2008