I am so very excited that I have my first two-person museum show opened February 2nd at MOCA Tucson in Tucson, AZ. I am honored to show work alongside artist Sarah Zapata and to have the opportunity to work with curator Alexis Wilkinson.
Here’s an excerpt of Alexis’ writing from MOCA Tucson’s website:
“Between gravity and ground is an exhibition that features glass and textile works by artists Sara Hubbs and Sarah Zapata who combine craft-based techniques with experimental processes to create objects that merge familiar and ambiguous. Together, their artworks converge in a constellation of strange forms, vibrant colors, and an abundance of textures to conjure a space of fantasy and possibility.
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.”
Check out installation images here.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by an AMPLIFY CREATIVITY GRANT from the ARTEZONA Foundation; University of Arizona Institute for LGBTQ+ Studies; The 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 Rune Wines and Exo Roast Coffee, Co.
