Soft shoulder at Everybody

I’m incredibly excited to share install images from my solo show, Soft shoulder at Everybody in Tucson, AZ. The gallery returned to Tucson after opening a space in Chicago. Tucson is so happy to have Everybody back home and I am grateful to work with them. It’s a great space and I am so proud of Soft shoulder!

I am honored to have an exhibition essay written by Lauren R. O’Connell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Here’s an excerpt:

“Soft shoulder presents a series of sculptural situations by artist Sara Hubbs that use a variety of medium and are conceptually grounded in the transformative qualities of relationships. At the center of Hubbs’ installations are vessel-like glass objects molded from plaster casts of plastic structures shaped using her daughter’s toy packaging—Barbie and the Rockers, Hello Kitty, LOL dolls, and so on. As a parent working from home, the discarded plastic became available material loaded with meaning and prompted the artist to consider the cyclical nature of inanimate objects and human relationships.”


Install image courtesy of Everybody. Photo credit: Maya Hawk





Painting At Night

Two very special pieces of mine were chosen by juror Melanie Cooper Pennington for the 2nd Annual Exhibition, “Painting at Night” at Artlink Gallery in Fort Wayne, IN in collaboration with The Artist Mother Podcast. I’m happy to be showing one of my Weaning Vessels, Doll, as well as a new video piece called Weaning Vessel: Fountain. Thank you to Kayla Buyten of The Artist Mother Podcast for providing the platform, opportunity and always elevating Mother Artists. Here’s a bit about the show from the Artlink website:

“In collaboration with Artist/Mother Podcast, Artlink is pleased to host Painting at Night, a group exhibition that was juried by Melanie Cooper Pennington and open internationally to artists identifying as mothers or lifelong caregivers.

The theme for this exhibition was accumulated during episode 28 of the Artist Mother Podcast, a conversation between host, Kaylan Buteyn, and artist Allison Reimus. In the episode, Allison recalls the time she read a statement in a New York Times article about how “You can’t paint at night in your kitchen and hope to be a good artist. It doesn’t work that way.”  

In true Artist/Mother fashion, this seemed like a great statement to respond to for a group show, as an act of resistance and rejection. To imply that good art cannot be made in domestic spaces, or that a person cannot claim the title of artist without meeting arbitrary requirements is a patriarchal myth, one that artists who are mothers have been resisting for decades.

Over 400 artworks were submitted to this call. The juror, Melanie Cooper Pennington, narrowed down the exhibition to 63 works by 54 artists, with a broad range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramic, sculpture, texiles, installation and video.”

Artists: Lisa Alonzo, Robin Assner-Alvey, Cassie Arnold, Joanna Bavero, Erin Boake, Amy Branch-Lambert, Sarah Meyers Brent, Kim Cardoso, Kristy Cavaretta, Allyson Darakjian, Krista Dedrick-Lai, Jillian Dickson, Beth Dixon Welch, Kate Eggleston, Lauren Frances Evans, Jean Gray Mohs, Nicole Havekost, Jodi Hays, Norah Howell, Sara Hubbs, Bethany Kenyon, Alexandra Kiss, Marrin Lee Martinez, Madeleine LeMieux, Jess Levey, Tai Lipan, Jill Nicole Luton, Kelly Marshall, Jennifer Mendoza Stanelle, Kellianne McCarthy, Erin McCluskey Wheeler, Emily Moll Wood, Sarah Paulsen, Catherine Reinhart, Leslie Renn, Renee Romero, Laura Rosengren, Liz Rundorff Smith, Lauren Salazar, Nora Schuchat, Lauren Scott Corwin, Jordan Sheridan, Claire Sherwood, Megan Shope, Kari Smith, Angie Stalker, Isadora Stowe, Jacquelyn Strycker, Yael Villafranca, Dara Weyna, Paige Whitney, Maliheh Zafarnezhad, Emily Zarse, and Stefanie Zito.

Sara Hubbs, 2021, Weaning Vessel: Fountain, video still.

Artist Parent Index

I’m honored to be a part of an incredible project founded in 2016 by artist Sarah Irvin called the Artist Parent Index. It is “a searchable database of artists making work about their experiences with reproduction (from the Instagram page for Artist Parent Index).” You can check out my entry here. Follow The Artist Parent Index on Instagram!

CARE

You can still see the online show Care hosted by Dear Artists Project. I’m so honored my work was included in the show co-curated by Benz Amataya founder of the Dear Artists Project and Kaylen Buteyn from the Artist Mother Podcast.

Instagram handles: @dearartists @artistmotherpodcast

Text from the website:

“Caring for others can often come at the expense of caring for ourselves and can trigger depression, panic, worry, and mental disorders that threaten our health. From holding a newborn who feels so fragile, to helping a sick or elderly person who relies on you so heavily, managing the lives of others makes our plates full. Looming responsibilities, figuring out medical tasks we don’t feel prepared for, uncertainty about the future, fear of losing a loved one, lacking resources or wisdom to help those we love...there are so many ways our own stress and anxiety is compounded because we care.

Caring for ourselves and caring about social issues that are important to us can also be a source of anxiety. Are we fitting in the right amount of exercise, sleep, nutritious food, reading, vacationing, etc. Are we listening to what consumerism and the world tells us we need to do to care for ourselves and is that causing even more anxiety? Are we doing enough to contribute to the changes that we need to see in our society? How do we cope with seeing so much suffering in the world?”

Congrats to all of the artists!

Brianna Hernández, Katherine Brown, Stefanie Zito, Taiessa Pagola, Tamara Zibners, Holly Romano, Amy Branch-Lambert, Michela Martello, Cat Gunn, Alicia Sampson Ethridge, McKenzie Drake, Alice Stone-Collins, Casaundra Beard, Anna Armella, Jess Levey, Lauren Herzak-Bauman, Lisa Marie Moriarty, Rebecca Ackermann, Sue Watt, Taylor Lee Nicholson, Jessica Caldas