SARA HUBBS & SARAH ZAPATA: between gravity and ground / MOCA Tucson
2024
Mold-blown, kiln-formed glass and re-bar
Photos by Maya Hawk, courtesy and of MOCA Tucson
Sara Hubbs takes an intuitive approach to working with glass, using improvisational processes to produce collections of tactilely-rich objects. She often makes vessels – containers that map the contours of absence – to consider the act of holding space within caretaking and grief. Her works are formed with objects that reflect her roles as parent and kin such as medical tubing, architectural features, toy packaging, bows, and body parts. Attending to the ways we shape one another, she uses multi-step casting, slumping, and firing methods that alter her material references, resulting in varied states of legibility, distortion, and abstraction. The soft curves and hard surfaces of her sculptures evoke multiple associations such as shiny oversized candies and draping fabric, snaking riverbeds and translucent topographies, or brightly hued internal organs and mysterious organic matter.
-Excerpt from Exhibition Text by Curator Alexis Wilkinson
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