Mother Molds solo show at University of Maryland Art Gallery
September 13 - December 8 2023
Curated by Melanie Nguyen & Taras Matla
Mother Molds at UMD gallery presents the work of Brooklyn based Coralina Rodriguez Meyer from 2018-Present. The kinetic retablo altars feature fertility effigy casts of the bodies and bellies of pregnant people affected by the reproductive health crisis among LGBTQIA+BIPOC communities in the US. Representing the site where structural violence meets the individual, Rodriguez Meyer has transformed pregnant bodies into votive objects of goddess-like figures. Each mold is embellished with layers of domestic construction materials and ephemera situated within urban and domestic environments of their sitters. Their decorative excess serves as a riposte to those who would forget these women and their stories or mark them as expendable. Coralina Rodriguez Meyer: Curated by Taras Matla & Melanie Woody Nguyen, the exhibition is made possible by funding from MD State Arts Council, NALAC, Oolite Arts Ellies Grant, and MIA Grant Miami Dade County.
https://artgallery.umd.edu/exhibition/coralinarodriguezmeyer
he University of Maryland Art Gallery was established in 1966 and endowed with its first major collection of prints and drawings from Martin W. Brown. Initially housed in the Tawes Fine Arts Center, the Art Gallery moved into an expanded site located in the Art-Sociology Building (currenty Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building) in 1976. The nearly 4,500 objects that make up the Gallery's holdings are due in large part to the kindness of its supporters and donors over the past five decades.
Since its founding, the Art Gallery has become a leading academic museum with one of the most varied university collections in the Greater Washington, D.C region. Masterpieces from the collection include works by John Baldessari, Lee Krasner, Honoré Daumier, Paul Reed, Rembrandt van Rijin, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andy Warhol, as well as art from diverse cultures in Africa, Asia, and South America.
- Created: September 13, 2023
- Collections: Mother Mold monuments