The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University presents spinnerets, an exhibition of new work by 2024-26 Princeton Arts Fellow Gi (Ginny) Huo. Her work considers the legacies of belief systems and their geopolitical impact through mapping narratives of land and sites tracing Huo’s lineages and religious upbringing. The exhibition is on view in the Hurley Gallery at the Lewis Arts complex September 9 through October 24 with an opening reception on September 9 at 4:30 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The gallery is an accessible venue. Guests in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week prior to the event date.
An image from artist Gi (Ginny) Huo’s exhibition, spinnerets
The title of the exhibition, spinnerets, refers to the organ of the spider that creates the silk. Inspired by survival techniques found in nature, such as spiders’ camouflaging, trapping prey, and ballooning, a method spider’s use to float distances on currents of air, the work draws parallels practiced in human form. The spider ballooning becomes a metaphor for the ballooning of messages between North and South Korea, which began as a military technique. The work includes imagery of plants and aerial-drawn perspectives of northern O’ahu Hawai’i, retracing back to where Huo was born. With various art mediums such as drawings, steel sculptures, archival photographs, and 16mm film, Huo’s work navigates through perception/truth, translation/interpretation, and the systematic mechanisms of selling a fantasy.
Gi (Ginny) Huo is an artist and educator thinking on the intentions of what people believe, the legacies of religious systems, and their geopolitical impact. Huo works across mediums in drawing, sculpture, video, artists books, photography, and printmaking and has exhibited in places such as The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, Baxter St Camera Club of New York, Franconia Sculpture Park, and The Smithsonian Archives of American Art. In the past decade, Huo has taught and facilitated programs for the Education and Public Programs departments at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Parsons School of Design, and CUNY College of Staten Island. Huo has participated in residencies such as Smack Mellon, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
As a Princeton Arts Fellow over the past two years, Huo has taught undergraduate studio courses on public art, sculptural studies of objects and myths in nature, and experimental sculptural book making.
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