For Laub, care is at the center of the provocation, “Let me touch you.” The works in the exhibition—ceramics, quilts and embroidered textiles, and glass sculpture—all carry the trace of the hand and the labor of the handmade. Made while Laub studied anatomy to become a massage therapist, the works both contain and extend the curriculum of the body.
Textiles depicting reflexology are hand stitched with embroidery floss, turning the usual printed diagram seen in the waiting rooms and patient offices of healing practitioners into a dimensional and uneven surface, one that more nearly resembles the body in question. The charting of a bodily map, indicating how points of the hands and feet can both reference and summon body systems, organs, and glands, is one of many patterns and lines that relate the works in the exhibition.
Wednesday to Saturday
12 - 6pm