Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi, is a site-specific presentation by Los Angeles based artist Kelly Akashi on the Museum’s fifth-floor outdoor gallery and is a part of Whitney Biennial 2026. The commission brings together a new sculptural installation, steel relief, works on paper, and an outdoor-screen animation across the Whitney’s terrace and adjacent spaces. Monument (Altadena) stands as a testament to the widespread losses suffered in Altadena, California, in the Eaton Fire in January 2025. After Kelly Akashi’s home and studio burned, the chimney was the only structure left standing. She worked with a mason to rebuild it piece by piece, alongside a reconstruction of her home’s walkway, in luminous glass brick. Akashi made Inheritance (Distressed) using one of her grandmother’s doilies that she saved from a family garage sale but was later lost in the Eaton Fire. Here the del
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Whitney Museum · Exhibitions meets Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi, is a site-specific presentation by Los Angeles based artist Kelly Akashi on the Museum’s fifth-floor outdoor gallery and is a part of Whitney Biennial 2026. The commission brings together a new sculptural installation, steel relief, works on paper, and an outdoor-screen animation across the Whitney’s terrace and adjacent spaces. Monument (Altadena) stands as a testament to the widespread losses suffered in Altadena, California, in the Eaton Fire in January 2025. After Kelly Akashi’s home and studio burned, the chimney was the only structure left standing. She worked with a mason to rebuild it piece by piece, alongside a reconstruction of her home’s walkway, in luminous glass brick. Akashi made Inheritance (Distressed) using one of her grandmother’s doilies that she saved from a family garage sale but was later lost in the Eaton Fire. Here the del
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