Second-year MFA candidate Rosana Ybarra will present a solo exhibition at Project Gallery in Omaha. "Hauberk" will run April 14th - May 19th. An opening reception will be held April 14th, from 6 - 10 p.m. Project Gallery is located at 1818 Vinton Street, Omaha, NE.
About the exhibition:
We go to great lengths to protect ourselves against perceived threat - real or imagined, imminent or distant. For the historic soldier, armor was the literal barrier between survival and death. What now, for the foot citizen? What protection in spiritual and psychological warfare? Hauberk is a collection of works that act as hybrid between the amulet (a good luck charm) and the shield which would protect the heart. They are spiritual armor in physical form, a psychic safety zone. They say: better to stay awake than die sleeping. Better to have false comfort than no comfort at all.
Rosana Ybarra is a queer interdisciplinary artist from Portland, OR. She is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate and Instructor of Record at University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Her work has most recently been exhibited at the Arts & Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI, the Bemis Benefit Exhibition in Omaha, NE and as a performance guest for Pure Surface in Portland, OR. Rosana’s life practice includes radical feminism, activism and laughing loud as hell.