Bettina Hubby
Thanks for the Mammaries,
The Facebook Feed
2014
Silk, hardware
97 by 384 inches
(installation view at LAND)
LAND HQ
6775 Santa Monica Boulevard #5
Los Angeles, CA 90038
On Thursday, October 1, 2015 from 6-8pm, LAND unveiled its new, larger public headquarters in Hollywood (same strip mall, new unit!) with Los Angeles-based artist Bettina Hubby’s large-scale installation, Thanks for the Mammaries, the Facebook feed, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The work chronicled the Facebook dialogue surrounding Hubby’s diagnosis of breast cancer and subsequent double mastectomy in 2014. When Hubby learned of her diagnosis, she reached out via Facebook to her friends and community to submit, “boob-related imagery”. The work was a compilation of the more than 100 submissions she received, representative of Hubby’s inherently collaborative artistic practice that utilizes humor to strengthen community bonds.
Alongside the installation, limited-edition artist objects created by Hubby were for sale, with all proceeds benefitting the Cancer Support Community at the Benjamin Center in Los Angeles.
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BETTINA HUBBY
BOOK LAUNCH: BETTINA HUBBY’S THANKS FOR THE MAMMARIES
ARCANA: BOOKS ON THE ARTS (8675 WASHINGTON BLVD. CULVER CITY, CA 90232)
JULY 10, 2016
Please join LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) in celebrating the launch of Bettina Hubby’s new artist publication, Thanks for the Mammaries, on Sunday, July 10, 2016 from 4-6pm at Arcana: Books on the Arts (8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232). The book documents the various iterations of Hubby’s ongoing project, Thanks for the Mammaries, the Facebook feed, which was installed at the LAND HQ from October through November of 2015.