Tabitha Soren

This put a smile on my face. Can anyone ID the huggers?⁠ .⁠ Surface Tension RVB Book available TODAY.⁠ Surface Tension Mills College Art Museum Exhibit opens SEPT 18TH.⁠ .⁠ Heartfelt thanks to #noelleflorestheard, @joannamilter @jiatortellini @newyorkerphoto @millsartmuseum @rvb_books . Link in bio ⬆️

I’m so thankful to be a small part of the 💪@designingmotherhood team. I admire these individuals so much as artists, as curators, as thinkers, as feminists and as human beings. And the press is nice too - yesterday's coverage from the Boston Globe (🔥 @cate.mcquaid ) gave the show a lovely and thoughtful review. The exhibit @maamboston also got great coverage from local radio stations -- @WGBH and @WBUR -- and local news outlets too. Juliana, Zoe, Amber, Gabriella, Michelle and all the artists with whom I’m sharing walls are very special to me. Every once in a while, you meet your people in the art world. These are mine. A huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone who made this happen. #blessed — Advisors Nashira Baril | Adrianne Edwards | Tekara Gainey | Porsche Holland | Jessie Laurore | Karen Pollack | Sabrina Taylor | @maternitycarecoalition @neighborhoodbirthcenter Curatorial Designing Motherhood was curated by: Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick with assistance from Michaela Blanc, Lisa Tung, and Chloe Zaug. The project team acknowledges that DM stands on the shoulders of the work of reproductive justice advocates locally and globally across generations. Education Curator of Education Brian Hone Student and Program Manager Erin Gallagher Museum Attendants: Logan Heilman ‘23 | Gabby Kay | Sylvia Lagor 24’ | Mikaela Murphy ‘22 | Alexa Payne ‘24 | Ella von Huene | Lily Judge ‘23 | Margarite Carroll ‘23 | Jourdin Craig-Lashley ‘23 | Kylie Marden ‘24 | Alice Yingrong Shao ‘23 | Emily Canales ‘24 Exhibitions Exhibition Manager Joy Feasley (‘09) Freelance Preparator: Paul Swenbeck (’91) Art Installers: Logan Heilman | Gabby Kay | Sylvia Lagor | Mikaela Murphy | Ella von Huene | Alexa Payne | Emily Canales | Alice Yingrong Graphic Design: Michael Keys, Shaz Madani Vinyl: J-Hung Graphics Printed Materials: Aryn Tedstone Operations and Outreach Associate Director Chloé Zaug All MAAM’s positions, including interns and fellows, are paid.

Just in!! from the British Journal Of Photography 📷️ @bjp1854 ⚡️⁠ ⁠ How Ocean Vuong And The Pandemic Inspired A Haptic Photo Show⁠ by DIANE SMYTH @dismy ⁠ ⁠ A new show at Princeton University Art Museum suggests the physical, the intimate, and the lived as key concerns in photography and culture...⁠ ⁠ https://www.1854.photography/2024/05/photography-and-touch-susan-bright-susannah-baker-smith-princeton/⁠ ⁠ @ocean_vuong @susan_curator #surfacetension @walklew ⁠ Richard Renaldi @renaldiphotos @susannahbakersmith_photograph @princetonu_artmuseum ⁠

She was born ready - and somehow. today she’s 27!⁠ ⁠ Happy birthday to my favorite model. She’s a giver. ⁠

So happy to see evidence of another artist being SO happy 🍾 #JasminSian #WhitneyBiennial2026 @anthony_meier_ @grace.elizabeth.lloyd @drewmsawyer #marcelaguerrero From @SarahCascone : “The small scale of new growth allows her to capture her subjects in the minute detail necessary for her delicate, lace-like works. Each time-consuming piece is made on recycled materials like brown paper bags from the deli or bubblegum wrappers. “I like things that are abject, and that transformative process,” Sian said, noting that even if her work does eventually get discarded, “at least they had a moment when they weren’t trash.” But it’s hard to imagine anyone throwing out Sian’s gorgeous artworks, these finely detailed graphite, gouache, and ink drawings of animals amid dense vegetation, and their impossibly precise cut-out borders. The result is akin to a lace doily, the artist turning her humble materials into something undeniably exquisite and precious.“

Happy Mother’s Day ! #momlife #donoharmtakenoshit #howitis #mothersday2026

Only a few days left to see my friend Mimi Plumb's retrospective at the The High Museum of Art in Atlanta. And if you’re already in Venice and can't get to Atlanta in time, simply buy the book from @radius.books . The publication includes texts about Miimi's work by great writers and curators like Gregory Harris, Karen Irvine, Lauren Richman, Amanda Maddox and Jordan Bass.⁠ ⁠ The exhibition and book brings together three of her major bodies of work—The White Sky, Landfall and The Golden City, and The Reservoir—that collectively contemplate the anxieties of American life in the waning years of the Cold War and its aftermath.⁠ ⁠ Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb⁠ February 6 – May 10, 2026⁠ High Museum of Art⁠ 1280 Peachtree St NE⁠ Atlanta, GA 30309⁠ ⁠ Next stop is The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida in October and next year in Chicago at the ⁠ Museum of Contemporary Photography ⁠starting May 2027.⁠ ⁠ Her work is also available from @RobertKochGallery in SF. ⁠ Imagine buying and living with one of her gorgeous prints ✨

Net Impact, at the Perez Art Museum Miami. RIGHT NOW⁠ ⁠ 📸 Photography captures moments you can’t see with the naked eye. ⁠ The unnatural and often dangerous positions athletes move through to perform at a professional level are frozen by my camera in the tintypes. The velocity of a pitch’s effect on the body is not something we usually get to witness because it happens in a split second at 84-90 miles per hour. In this sculpture, viewers can see the impact because I have frozen the net’s response to a ghost ball hit hard into the net of the pitching shield. ⁠ ⁠ The sculpture, and Fantasy Life in general, examines the precarity of a person’s fate when it hangs by the thread of perpetual self-perfection. The stress on the bodies pictured in the tintypes is also shown in the sculpture by attaching bone spurs generated from all that practice and repetitive motion. ⁠ ⁠ So much of my previous work is about somatizing the trials of the human experience. Here, I’m visualizing the ball hit by the batter, a release of pent up tension from all the striving, sacrifice and emotion required to pursue a life in sports. ⚾️⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Friday Flashback to Fantasy Life - I got so lucky 🍀 with my subjects. I ended up caring much more about these guys as human beings than as players. I'm still have trouble watching a baseball game if one of them isn't playing. ⁠ ⁠ Now on view at the Perez Art Museum in GET IN THE GAME.⁠ 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL⁠ ⁠ Monday 11am-6pm⁠ Tuesday-Wednesday Closed⁠ Thursday 11am-9pm⁠ Friday-Sunday 11am-6pm⁠ ⁠ Featured in this reel:⁠ ⁠ #BenFritz @Padres @Courtfritz ⁠ ⁠ #BrantColamarino⁠ ⁠ #BrianStavisky⁠ ⁠ #StephenObenchain⁠ ⁠ @ShaneKomine ⁠ ⁠ #MarkKiger @markkiger ⁠ @suesphotogrid #suecasey ⁠ #JohnBaker @megebake @seejohnlearn ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Mid-day studio break with #artmamas Victoria Sung & Jessica Silverman ⁠ a l l t h e w a y in San Francisco! 🤩 ⁠ ⁠ I really need to do this more often. So fortifying to be with supportive art grrrls. 🙏 to #artmama @m_yimartin for getting me across the bridge.🌉⁠ ⁠ @jessicasilvermangallery @victoriasung @bampfa ⁠ Sweet photo by @PamelaHornik ⁠ ⁠ Michelle Yi Martin's #theshapeofdusk is up for one more day at Jessica's upstairs gallery! Go check it out.

New @dashouck color studies in the house! #swooning #johnhouck ⁠ Small but MIGHTY. ⁠ ⁠ Thank you to @markryanfineartservices for the gorgeous framing.

Just four more days to see The Shape of Dusk by Michelle Yi Martin:⁠ @JessicaSilvermanGallery in San Francisco. ⁠ ⁠ Final day is this Saturday April 18th. Michelle won theSF Artadia award this year and today Artadia hosted a talk with Michelle and @bampfa 's @VictoriaSung . I learned so much. And if I seem to have a little more swagger the next time you see me, know it's because of wise Michelle. ⁠ ⁠ Yup - I'm really proud of my pal. The work is incredible. 🪡⁠ Michelle's hanging pieces incorporate so many of my favorite elements: motion, layers, gold, shadow play and suspended moments. ⁠ ⁠ Run. Don't walk. ⌛️⁠ 621 Grant Avenue SF ⁠ ⁠ And let me know what you think!⁠