Alicia Henry: Witnessing

Exhibiting artist Alicia Henry in conversation with Daina Augaitis, Curator of Alicia Henry: Witnessing, at the Kamloops Art Gallery on Saturday, October 1, 2022. Alicia Henry: Witnessing is initiated, organized, and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, in collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Kamloops Art Gallery. Video by Jonathon Fulton

Join artist Alicia Henry and guest curator Daina Augaitis for a conversational artist talk at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The artist will speak about her practice, the evolution of the exhibition Witnessing, and current work.

Zeitgeist kicks off 2016 with new work by Alicia Henry. “The Walk” is intense and enigmatic. It’s like a great poem, in that whenever I think I’m pinning down an interpretation, it skitters away from…

During the past twenty years, the Nashville-based artist has created work that departs from Western ideas of portraiture denoting a likeness or a construction of a subject. Her figurative, mixed-media sculptural work foregrounds the human figure in isolation and interaction and in turn is conceived of by the artist as...

Burnaway takes a Close Look at Alicia Henry: 2020 and 2021 at Zeitgeist in Nashville, Tennessee.

Opening this Saturday night at Zeitgeist Gallery, Alicia Henry’s The Walk is among the first exhibitions to kick off the new year of Nashville art.

We asked Alicia Henry if she had a favorite section of her mural. She asked us the same question return. Check out her work at our studio and on our blog!

In conjunction with Alicia Henry’s first exhibition in Canada, and in partnership with OCAD University, The Power Plant presented a conversation between the artist and guest curator Daina Augaitis. The two discussed the evolution of Henry’s work and the exhibition Witnessing at The Power Plant. They concluded with questions from the audience.

The Power Plant presents Alicia Henry’s first solo exhibition in Canada. For more information https://bit.ly/2IwlRxZ

Alicia Henry’s powerful exhibition “Witnessing” challenges the Western conception of portraiture as an image that reflects both the subject’s body and psyche. Occupying the cavernous clerestory and second level of the Power Plant, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Canada presents her figurative sculptural work made with materials such as felt, canvas, and leather. Although, at times, subtle graphite markings suggest individual faces, Henry’s treatments of the textiles prior to sewing them together—laboriously tanning, boiling, and embroidering them—are what lend the figures distinctive

Vanderbilt Divinity School Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture hosts Artist Talk: Alicia Henry: A Work on Progress 10.9.14 Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at http://social.vanderbilt.edu.