Eve Hennessa Sculpture

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking

2009-08-06T15:49:00.000-07:00

Concerning the UFO at Eden

2009-05-23T10:13:00.000-07:00

"Concerning the UFO in Eden"

These are Adam and Eve as aliens
Alien Adam and Eve is a quasi-autobiographical meditation about man and woman and the fact that we might not actually be real humans. This dude is actually a guy I am attached to, off and on, who was the model for the man and has scars he swears he got on the same night he and his friends saw the space ship. He is the lover, the alien. They gave him a human name and social security number, but I am just not sure he is human.

There are theories that aliens had something to do with the origin of humans on Earth. Adam and Eve are the relationship and original gender archetypes. They have sex toys as genitals, which are somehow more fleshy and real looking than the alien foil bodies, but at the same time are the most fake. These contemporary replacements for real love and real sex are indicative of the essential love connection and procreation instruments removed from actual humanness.

My God, when I was googling to find the best and cheapest fake genitals I saw every kind of toy and usable body part imaginable. I suppose we no longer need each other. It’s a strange world.
The figures are detailed in some areas and hanging plastic or tape in others. Its a glimpse into their construction; a metaphor on being human, are we a great miracle or a makeshift conglomeration of materials at hand? Or both? I tend toward both.

I have never been that interested in UFOs. I have known plenty of people who claim to have seen ships and aliens. I even made a film of an old man in Mexico who said he was in the ship on many occasions. I was in Meridian Hill Park on May 27 with the above-mentioned Adam model with UFO scar and I saw a big light in the sky close to the Earth and turning at right angles. I reported it to the UFO websites. He said that that’s just what they look like. Erie!

Grounded in the DC tradition of aluminum foil works. If you haven’t seen “The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly” by James Hampton in The American Museum of Art, go. The video made about me “Eve in the Third Heaven” is coincidence.

2008-08-28T11:54:00.000-07:00

"The Whale Ship is My Yale and My Harvard"

2007-03-04T17:00:00.000-08:00

"Dog Dreaming"

2006-12-11T19:24:00.000-08:00

''I Could Not Be Here at All''

2006-12-11T19:01:00.001-08:00

" Abolition of Logic"

2006-12-11T19:01:00.000-08:00

2006-10-07T09:59:00.000-07:00

"Black Box"
Walk-in Construcction

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BIO
BFA University of Southern Maine
MFA Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Academia de San Carlos-UNAM

Upcomming Exhibits, Washington,DC,
09;09;2009 Katzen Art Center Museum, Washington,DC,
Oct 2009 Art-Space, DC

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2008 Lilian Fitzgerald Gallery, Bethesda,MD2007 Watergate Gallery, DC

2007 Smith Farm (2 person), DC
2004 Parish Gallery, DC
2001 Janet Andrews Gallery, Reston, VA
1998 Sueño Guajiro, México City
1997 Maeth Gallery, Santa Cruz,Ca
1996 Carole Jones Gallery, Chicago
1996 Academia de San Carlos, México City

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2009 X in DC ‘Live Painting”,2009 Nevin Kelly, 2009 Art Outlet, 2009, Artomatic, 2009 Art Registry with The Pink Line Project and Urban Pace, DC, 2008, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC, 2008 Arto Conecto, Miami, 2008 Caroll County Arts Counsel, Westminster,MD,2008 Winvian, Litchfiield,CN, 2008 Fountain Gallery, New York, New York, 2008 Wall Mountables, Washington,DC,2008, Cuisine des Artistes Meridian House, Washington,DC, Lilian Fitzgerald Gallery NIH, Bethesda,MD, 2008 Cancer Institute, 2008 Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, 2007 Warehouse Gallery, DC, 2007 Heinamen Meyers Contemp Art, 2007 Winvian, Litchfield, CN, 2007 Projectile Gallery, NY, NY, 2007 Knew Gallery, DC 2006 Heart Gallery, DC,2005 Four Seasons Plaza, DC, Galerie Place Pille Marie, Paris,France, 2004 Continental Arts Doorne, Netherlands, 2002 WPAC, curated by Chan Chao; DC, 2002 Khoja Gallery- Arlington,VA; 2003 DCAC, DC, 2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, DC, 2001-CA, Utrecht, The Netherlands- 2002 DC Arts Center, 2001 Gallery 7, Portland,Me, 2001 Network Gallery, Herndon, VA, 1998 Arcos Gallery, Sonora, Mexico, 1997 Around the Coyote, Chicago, 1997 Salon Dez Aztecas, México DF, 1997 Cuando Gallery, NYC, 1992 X-Sta. Teresa, México DF, 1997 CETEC, México DF, 1995 Club Amistur, México DF, 1994 Taller Contreras, México DF, 1996 Mex Arte, México DF, 1996 Art Students League, Gorham, ME, 1996 Zoots, Ptld, ME, 1996 Seamen’s Club, Portland, ME 1996 USM Gallery, Portland, ME, 1996 B Gallery, Ptld, ME,1996 Seamen’s Club, Ptld, ME

Museums:
Museo Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, México DF , Installation Sculpture Museo X-Convent Sta Teresa, Salón Dez Aztecas, México DF, Walk-In Sculpture USM Gorham, Me, Sculpture

Performance:
2009 Hot Alien Eve- ArtOmatic
2002 Prophesy to the Dry Bones, DC
1998 Transforma, Ranas, México DF
Publications:2008 Currents ’08 by Chris Chote1995 Fine Arts Index,
1995 Nueva Vision, México DF Film:2007:

Video:
2009 www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3cu_VtbsFc “Live Painting for ‘X’ in DC” at the EFN Lounge
2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsfe6PybHT0&feature=related ,Me at Artomatic
2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXlpbhBnOSM , 3 minute video- 30 minute documentary in production. UK1995 “Dream Canvas” short film that went with art project. Painting at Osaka AirportSelected

Community Involvement:

2008-present Volunteer Pottery teacher, Art Space, DC

2007 Port Au Prince,Haiti, Painted 5 rooms for diabled kids

2007 San Pedro,Pedro, Dominican Republic Painted mural with children at Orphanage
2007,2008,2009 Donation of painting to Whitman Walker Clinic, DC Auction
2006 Volunteer Photographer for DC adoption
2004-2006 Volunteer Pottery teacher “Anacostia Gracious Arts Program”

2002 Tokat, Turkey-Painted mural in Orphanage for disabled children

Founder of “Arts 4 Orphans” which brings beauty, creativity, expression and love to orphans, kids and places of poverty.

Misc:

1995 Havana Bienal, Cuba assistant for Gabriel Macotela Installation

Crew Member Mural Painter for Byron Peck of Ciry Arts

Crew Member Mural Painter for Anne Marchand

Commissions:

Hela Spa in Georgetown, DC is decorated 100% with Hennessa paintings

Winvian Spa in Litchfield Hills, CN is also decorated with Hennessa works

Various portraits, and commissions including A large scale bible scene for a Church in Portland, Me