We’re pleased to announce the opening of Mothering, I, with recent work by multi-media artist Eva Rocha. The show, which opens Friday, January 8 with an all-day reception from 10 am – 5 pm, includes Rocha’s most recent series of thread drawings on canvas. This is the Richmond-based artist’s second solo exhibition at Reynolds Gallery.

Tactile yet ephemeral, Rocha’s threaded works present contemporary concepts of the human figure rooted in memory and ritual. Fluidly draping black thread over ungessoed canvas, she organically draws the figure. In this exhibition, she presents a series of compositions reflecting the mother and child relationship, specifically referencing the bond with both her daughter and late mother. Rocha’s depictions of the body vary from piece to piece, engaging a dynamic emotive quality from nurturing to apprehensive to serene, and always vulnerable. This vulnerability is heightened by the stark contrast between dark lines of Rocha’s thread and her use of raw, beige canvas, which evokes a primal nature in its fleshy hues. There also exists a notion of duality and connectivity both compositionally and metaphorically. With thread, Rocha merges the line of a daughter’s head with the curve of a mother’s hip, while on their face, the mother and child have only one eye each, as if not fully seeing unless they are together.