Finding expansive possibilities within a limited means fascinates me, as does the potential for a material object to incite a perceptual event that belies its inherent physical ‘facts’.

My multidisciplinary practice fuses painting, sculpture, and site-responsive installation. Research interests include histories of abstraction, theories of color and perception, and imaging technologies spanning early photographic processes to spectroscopy.

Projects explore the physical, spatial relationships largely within the bounds of painting to ask questions about the complexities and subjectivity of vision, color, and perception. Working extensively with canvas, dye, paint, scrim, and wood, the process-based works are sites of perceptual phenomena while remaining rooted in a material-based physicality. The work is produced using manual, repetitive processes which present layers of heightened optical nuances through their construction and craft. Material choices are rooted in the traditions of painting, with an understanding that canvas is a malleable textile, and a wooden support can absorb color. The canvas and its wooden support become image, object, and subject. I am allowing illusion and optical phenomena to exist while exposing their parts in a very direct way.

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Gina Hunt grew up in the Upper Great Plains of the United States, a region of the world where the open land and sky full of ever-changing atmospheric conditions, along with brilliant transitions of color in the sunrise and sunset, were early sources of how to observe shifts in color and light to document time.

Gina has presented solo exhibitions at Syracuse University, South Texas College, 65GRAND, The Franklin, Harper College, Western Pole, STNDRD Projects, University Galleries at Illinois State University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at galleries, museums, artist-run spaces, and non-traditional exhibition venues throughout the United States and beyond.

She has been awarded residencies at Chicago Artists Coalition, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, Hinge Arts, and Badlands National Park. At each residency, Gina focused on creating temporary, site-responsive sculptural installations integrated within landscape and architecture.