Anya Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio’s Rêvons D'or will be on view at ONE from April 23-June 4. Here, a cast portion of a tree stands overturned and balances on its bifurcated limbs. Porcelain apples hang from rope which clings to the texture of the tree. Unlike Anya Gallaccio’s time-based installations which allow organic material to change, decompose, or melt, in this 2006 sculpture that natural process has been stopped by the artist and frozen indefinitely in cast bronze. Gallaccio, part of the generation of Young British Artists, was born in Scotland and lived in London until 2008, when she moved to San Diego to join the faculty of the  Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.  Gallaccio attended Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College at the University of London. Her work is featured in numerous international public and private collections, with solo exhibitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; SculptureCenter, New York, NY; Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom; and Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom, among others.