Anna Chupa: Panel Discussion and Opening Reception

Join us on Thursday, February 11 for an alumni panel discussion and opening reception for Anna Chupa: Pattern, Presence, Place. 

Event details are still being confirmed so check back soon for more information!

5:00 PM Alumni Panel Discussion, LUAG Lower Gallery

Participating alumni will be announced soon. 

6:15 PM Opening Reception, LUAG Main & Lower Galleries

Enjoy music, refreshments, and community at our opening reception. FREE and all are welcome! 

RSVP link coming soon. 

Accessible parking spaces are located on Levels 1 and 3 of the garage. Note that Level 1 of the garage is metered parking; guests on this level can pay via the Passport Mobile app or at the kiosk near the elevator doors. More information about parking is available here.

About Anna Chupa: Pattern, Presence, Place

Weaving together the high-tech and the handmade, Anna Chupa produces textiles that hold memory, meaning, and mathematics in a provocative balance. Collecting fragments of architecture, botany, and cultural icons through her camera lens, Chupa meticulously deconstructs and reassembles them into photographic montages that become the basis for quilts, wall-hangings, and garments. Ranging from kaleidoscopic tilings that evoke micro- and macroscopic worlds, to portals that open onto sprawling landscapes like the Camino de Santiago, Chupa borrows strategies from Byzantine painting, Cubist collage, and voodoo altars to infuse her work with a sense of visual overload and astonishment.  By embellishing her objects with free-motion quilting and other ornamentation, she invests them with a physicality that raises questions about hand-labor within a digital landscape.