Jack Fischer Gallery is pleased to present lacuna, a solo exhibition of new work by Vanessa Woods. Lacuna will be on view from June 22 through July 27 with an opening reception on Saturday, June 22 from 4:00-6:00 pm. The artist will be in attendance. 

Lacuna is Woods’ first exhibition in the gallery to feature 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional works including photographs, collages, casts, and plaster sculptures that interrogate the malleability of motherhood. In lacuna, Woods shows a body turned inside out and remade through her children’s bodies while also probing the gaps and conflicts of maternal experience.

“The range of visual strategies used in lacuna is meant to generate spaces of vertigo, confusion, ambivalence, and reorientation,” says Woods of the exhibition. “I want the work to speak to the extraordinary fact that the maternal body and mind are physically and biologically remade through the process of becoming a mother. I also want to explore the conflicts that live within maternal experience; the need to simultaneously hold on to and let go of my children, to extend my body to them and reclaim it for myself. Fracture and repair are recurring motifs in the show. Like kintsugi—the Japanese art of mending broken pottery and leaving the crack visible—I feel that the fracture of self that occurs in motherhood allows us to be remade stronger and more beautiful.”

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