Bettina Hubby
Bettina Hubby’s practice is wide-ranging, encompassing curatorial, public engagement, and project-based work, alongside more traditional media such as collage, drawing, photography and sculpture. With ideas that engages diverse communities and often exist in settings that challenge the conventions of exhibition spaces, Hubby’s work celebrates collaboration and resists easy categorization. In 2014 the artist garnered national and international press was for a project called Thanks for the Mammaries, in which Hubby turned her diagnosis with breast cancer into a life-affirming community-supported celebration of breasts, and organized a show of 125 artists with related works whose sales went to support women with breast cancer. Before this, Hubby created Dig the Dig (2013), an installation and event in dialogue with the beginning of long term construction of the Olympic/26th Street Expo Metro Station. In conjunction with The Institute of Art and Olfaction she developed a cologne for construction workers called DIG. Other projects include The Eagle Rock Rock and Eagle Shop (2012), an installation and pop-up store in the Los Angeles community of Eagle Rock, CA that blurred the lines between curation, collection, kitsch, craft, and commerce, Get-Hubbied (2009-2011), a two year project about the institution of marriage that ultimately culminated …
Bettina Hubby’s practice is wide-ranging, encompassing curatorial, public engagement, and project-based work, alongside more traditional media such as collage, drawing, photography and sculpture. With ideas that engages diverse communities and often exist in settings that challenge the conventions of exhibition spaces, Hubby’s work celebrates collaboration and resists easy categorization. In 2014 the artist garnered national and international press was for a project called Thanks for the Mammaries, in which Hubby turned her diagnosis with breast cancer into a life-affirming community-supported celebration of breasts, and organized a show of 125 artists with related works whose sales went to support women with breast cancer. Before this, Hubby created Dig the Dig (2013), an installation and event in dialogue with the beginning of long term construction of the Olympic/26th Street Expo Metro Station. In conjunction with The Institute of Art and Olfaction she developed a cologne for construction workers called DIG. Other projects include The Eagle Rock Rock and Eagle Shop (2012), an installation and pop-up store in the Los Angeles community of Eagle Rock, CA that blurred the lines between curation, collection, kitsch, craft, and commerce, Get-Hubbied (2009-2011), a two year project about the institution of marriage that ultimately culminated in a legally binding wedding, and CoTour* (2008), a bus tour that explored spaces of private significance in a tour-guide kind of way throughout greater Los Angeles.
Her work and projects have been featured in California at Santa Monica Museum of Art, LACMA, Paris Gallery at La Verne University, and California Arts Foundation in Santa Barbara, among other institutions.
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