Motherhood is darker than the baby-needs aisle portrays it – more painted in various bodily fluids than pastel pinks and blues. Artist, filmmaker, and educator Katy McCarthy aims to capture that whimsical surreality of parenthood in her second solo exhibition with Ivester via photographs and video work. Utilizing miniature figurines and buildings as well as placenta harvested from the recent birth of her first child, McCarthy portrays what Ivester calls “the contradictions of motherhood: joy and fatigue, play and responsibility, the tender and the grotesque.”
Through October 11
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— James Scott