(~) Echo ( )
October 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
East Wing Galleries
(~) Echo ( ) is a two-part installation environment by artist Rebeca Bollinger that combines sculptural objects, architectural interventions, light refractions, and audio installations. The exhibition unfolds in two phases marked by distinct collaborations: the first with composer Gus Tomizuka, and the second with musician Patricio Coronado. Process-based, collaborative, and responsive, the installation sustains cycles of change through a series of translations across material, audio, site, light, and movement.
Both phases are anchored by arrangements and rearrangements of site-responsive sculptures by Bollinger. A series of cast bronze sculptures—made through imprinting surfaces like bark, sand, and stone in the Agua Caliente Wash—are installed with reflective surfaces and integrated lighting. The interaction of these elements cast cinematic shadows and shifting reflections across the walls and floor of the gallery space. Over the course of the exhibition, live performances will feature guest musicians activating the sculptures as percussive and touch-sensor instruments, accompanied by traditional instruments.
In the first phase (~), a sound piece by composer Gus Tomizuka gives “voice” to the bronze sculptures: each object corresponds to a speaker that emits a unique tone created by processing recordings of that sculpture into discrete, elastic waveforms. This synchronized ensemble “sings” a generative, responsive score that translates visitors’ movements into evolving sonic layers, making the audience an active participant in shaping their environment.
In the second phase ( ), Bollinger’s sculptures will be reconfigured in relation to a new soundscape created by artist and musician Patricio Coronado, drawn from his fieldwork around the world and his experiments with sound underwater. Projected light and shadow will cast undulating reflections across the gallery, conjuring the ocean, night sky, and passages in time.
Through the interplay of these elements, (~) Echo ( ) creates an experimental landscape of translations, traces, impressions, reflections, and reverberations that invites visitors to experience different versions of the work over the exhibition’s duration.
This exhibition is organized by Alexis Wilkinson, Curator. Exhibition design and production by Dominic Valencia, Lead Exhibition Installation and Design and Alyx Lunada, Facilities Assistant.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Teiger Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Commission on the Arts; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.
In-kind support provided by Queen of Cups.
About the Artists
Rebeca Bollinger is an artist whose practice spans sculpture, drawing, photography, writing, sound, installation, sculptural projections of light and video, cast instruments, improvisational music, binders, and books. She traces how form, language, and material shape each other—leaving traces, revealing patterns, gaps, and impressions. She is based in San Francisco, CA, and Tucson, AZ. Bollinger’s work has been exhibited at public venues including Creative Time, Brooklyn, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Ballroom Marfa, TX; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; University of California Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway; and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. She is a recipient of a 2024 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; SECA Award in Electronic Media from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Artadia Award; James D. Phelan Award in Video; NEA Creation & Presentation Grant; Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship; Headlands Artist-in-Residence Award; Art+Process+Ideas Artist-in-Residence Award with the Mills College Art Museum; Night Bloom: Grants for Artists, MOCA Tucson, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Patricio Coronado is a musician, writer and visual artist born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1992. He is the founder of Instituto Sonoro de la Fe y la Memoria, a research project of traditional music and spirituality that encompasses field work from rural areas in Mexico, North Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe; leader of the experimental rock band Pirámides and co-founder of the record label Transitory Tapes, Patricio’s sound work has been presented at Encuentro Internacional de Poesía Sonora, Venezuela; Museo MARCO, Mexico; Transversal Sonora, Argentina; Festival La Ilusión, Colombia. His work has been featured and reviewed by World Wide FM, UK; Bandcamp Daily, USA; BoxOut FM, India; KEXP, USA; Freistil Magazine, Austria; A Closer Listen, USA; Radio Helsinki, Austria; Radio Alhara, Palestine; Nexos, Mexico; Trafico Cultural, Peru; Remezcla, United States; and Lado B, Mexico. He has played and recorded in North American and European countries with Laraaji, Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar, Calexico, The Myrrors, Gaby Moreno, DeVotchKa, Chetes, Hassan Gania, Toy Selectah (Control Machete), Adrian Quesada (Black Pumas), Orkesta Mendoza, Homero Ontiveros (Inspector) and Jumbo.
Gus Tomizuka is a multimedia composer in Los Angeles exploring stochasticity and emergent narratives in audio. His pieces mix traditional instrumentation and avant-electronic techniques to animate classical forms (the score/recording/concert) and span soundtracks, instrument design, synthetic field recordings and mutually-sensing installations. He has had work and collaborations featured by NPR, the National Youngarts Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Bandcamp Daily, Kulturstiftung Hohenlohe, KLOF Magazine, Boiler Room, A Closer Listen and Dublab. As a journeyman he has performed and recorded with a range of artists including Daniela Spalla, Esteman, Laraaji, Arrington de Dioinyso, Lori Goldston, Jumbo, Chetes Garza and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.
Image Credit: Rebeca Bollinger, (~) Echo ( ) artwork process documentation (detail), 2025. Photograph by Rebeca Bollinger. Courtesy of the artist.