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Fredy Huamán Mallqui

Artist, Teaching Artist

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Contact: Fredy Huamán Mallqui
Phone: (814) 825-1323
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Erie, PA

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Teaching Artist

Artist Statement

Art is the kinetic energy of life that is inextricably tied to my everyday experience. It runs through the veins of the tree that become the wood, through my hands that reach for my carving tools. I interpret and translate the nuances of organic forms and experiences through the act of sculpting. In constant exploration of forms, textures, planes, and meanings, I bring to life sculptures that reconnect me with my lived experiences. 

I listen to and transform the wood, guided by traditions of shaping and the merging of functionality with fine art. Carving in wood grounds me in the city of my birth, Ayacucho, Peru, where the wood carving heritage is millennia old. Extending across original and forthcoming cultures, local craftspeople have carved ornamental, functional, and ceremonial objects. 

My designs are influenced and nourished by stories, rituals, experiences, and the use of iconography of ancestral and contemporary cultures. As an artist I am enriched through dialogue with the community, sensing and aligning with emotions, moments, and places. My creations are connected to and nurtured by in my environment. Nourishing myself through the exchange of ideas and perspectives, I aspire that my sculptures connect the diverse realities that people experience in their daily lives. Intended to be tactile, my work engages people to physically interact with sculpture while exploring issues relating to identity. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History/Biography

Fredy Huamán Mallqui 

Fredy moved to the United States from Ayacucho, Peru in Spring 2012 carrying his wood carving tools that served as extensions of his own hands and his design philosophy. Fredy also brought with him the most precious tools: sensibility, creativity, skills, and expertise that he has accumulated since he started his woodcarving profession at the age of nine. His carving pieces are not just merely decorative pieces, they are intricate pieces of art. Exquisitely detailed and of the highest quality of craftsmanship. Fredy’s work demonstrates his learning throughout the years from several master carvers, as well as the development and mastery of his own techniques of designing and hand carving unique pieces of art. Trained by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture in the conservation of diverse objects of art, Fredy worked conserving historical art pieces, dating from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in Peru.

Fredy excels in both classical carving as well in sculpting contemporary pieces. In 2021 Fredy was selected to create an ambitious sculptural series of public art in Pittsburgh, PA. Engaged in this multi-year project, he seeks to stimulate dialogue between sculpture and community. In 2021 Fredy’s sculpture titled Together is part of the Downtown Erie Sculpture Walk project, which also will feature various sculptural works by artists at the national level, Erie Arts and Culture and the Erie Downtown Development Corporation are partnering to make this project possible. In 2020 Fredy created two public art pieces in Erie, and also became a rostered teaching artist through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA). In 2020 Fredy was awarded the Established Artist Fellowship by Erie Arts and Culture,  and in the same year was awarded the Artist of Distinction prize in the Erie Art Museum 97th Spring Show. In March 2019, Fredy participated in the World Wood Day Celebration in Graz, Austria. This event is a recognition of woodcarvers from around the globe, highlighting their artistic work and the sustainability of the wood material. Fredy’s most prestigious restoration project 2018-2019 was at Fair Lane, the former home of Henry and Clara Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan. In 2017, he earned the Professional Level Scholarship at The Marc Adams School of Woodworking, located in Franklin, Indiana. 

Maintaining a high level of experience, Fredy teaches classical and wooden sculptural carving classes in prestigious institutions including the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (ME), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (CO), and Fredy will be teaching in 2023 at Shakerag Workshops (TN). 

Fredy’s work has been shown individually and collectively in Austria, Germany, Peru, and the United States. These exhibits include the Northwest Pennsylvania Art Association 2021 Biennial exhibition, the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland  County, NC. Juried painting exhibition LatinXhibit 2021, the Erie Art Museum Spring Show (2020); the International Woodcarving Show in Stefanielsaan-Congress, Graz, Austria (2019); Wawa Pampay Wenn ein Kind in den Anden stirbt. ̈When a child dies in the Andes, ̈ a solo photography exhibition  in Lippisches Landesmuseum, Detmold, Germany (2015).

 

WOODCARVING & SCULPTURE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2023 Shakerag Workshops, Classical woodcarving class, June 11-17  Sewanee, Tennessee

2022 Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, woodcarving class, September 26-30 Rockport, Maine

2022 Back Channel School of Woodworking, Introduction to woodcarving workshop July 8-10  Pittsburgh, PA

2022 Anderson Ranch Arts Center Relief and Detail: A Journey Through Sculptural Wood Carving, June 20-24, Colorado

2022 Contemporary Craft, The art of sculpting in wood, March 12 and 19 Pittsburgh, PA.

2021 Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Ornamental woodcarving class August 9-13 Rockport, Maine

2020 Erie Center for Arts & Technology (ECAT) spring Woodcarving class, Grounded Printshop, Erie, PA. 

2020 Erie Blasco Library, a demonstration woodcarving class offered to members of the community. 

2020 Classical Woodcarving Class, at the Back Channel School of Woodworking, Pittsburgh.

2019-2020 Classical Woodcarving Classes, held at Grounded Printshop, Erie, PA.

2018 Traditional woodcarving class at Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH.  

2017 Woodcarving class, Woodworking and Furniture Designing, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA.

 

Learn More About Fredy

April - July 2022 | Woodcarving with Fredy Mallqui | Event: Grounded Printshop

May 17, 2022  | Prism Episode 3: In Pennsylvania, an infusion of international talent | Keystone Edge

March 23, 2022 | Guest Faculty Lecture: Patrick Kingshill and Fredy Huaman Mallqui | AndersonRanch arts center

December 7, 2021 | Erie woodcarver Fredy Huaman Mallqui shares his passion with adult students | GoErie

November 30, 2021 | Erie gains new public art: Introducing Seeding Community | Erie Arts & Culture

June 4, 2021 | Fredy Huaman Mallqui | Center for Furniture Craftsmanship - Teaching Creative Excellence

November 12, 2020 | 50 Our West Bayfront residents honored with portraits on fence mural in a vacant Erie lot | GoErie

November 6, 2020 | Woodcarver creates public art from a maple tree trunk in Erie's Little Italy neighborhood | GoErie

2019 | 2019 WWD International Woodcarving Show: Water Celebration | Video: Wood Culture

September 1, 2018 | Master Carver Fredy Huaman Mallqui is demonstrating his skills today | Facebook: Mansfield Art Center

​February 25, 2018 | Carousel Works woodcarver hails from Peru's city of artisans | Richland Source

July 24, 2017 | Fredy Huamán Mallqui. "Un ayacuchano de exportación" | El Heraldo Literario

July 19, 2017 | Carving a Path" Award-winning woodcarver, Fredy Mallqui connects history and passion | Erie Reader

November 2014 | Wawa Pampas: Wenn ein Kind in den Anden stirbt | Lands Verband Lippe: Lippisches Landesmuseum

Photos

Woodcarving Public Art, Erie PA

Woodcarving Public Art, Erie PA

Seeding Community

Seeding Community

Fredy Mallqui Detailed Leg

Fredy Mallqui Detailed Leg

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Fredy Mallqui Detailed

Fredy Mallqui Full Size

Fredy Mallqui Full Size

Fredy Mallqui Horse Carousel

Fredy Mallqui Horse Carousel

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