Thanks for the Mammaries, The Facebook feed

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.

The installation was open for viewing Monday through Friday, 11AM-5PM, beginning Monday, October 5, 2015.

Bettina Hubby (b. 1968 in New York) received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her practice is wide-ranging, encompassing curatorial and project-based work as well as more traditional media such as collage, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and photography. Hubby’s projects engage diverse communities and often exist in settings that challenge the conventions of exhibition spaces, celebrating collaboration and resisting easy categorization. Her work and projects have been presented at Klowden Mann (2013); Paris Photo LA (2015); The Grinstein Artist Invitational, Rosamund Felsen Gallery (chosen by Ed Ruscha) (2014); Dig the Dig, Santa Monica Museum of Art (2013); The Eagle Rock Rock and Eagle Shop (2012); Home Show, California Arts Foundation, Santa Barbara (2011); and Forming Storming Norming and Performing, Circus Gallery (2008), among many others. She was featured in Wallpaper* as one of the top creative talents in Los Angeles (2015), ArtForum’s Best of 2014 (2014), has been featured on NPR (2013), and her work has been written about in LA Weekly (2014), New York Magazine (2014), Los Angeles Times (2013), Artslant (2013), the Huffington Post (2014), and many others.

Special thanks to Klowden Mann.