Lost and Found

Curated by: Yvette Mayorga
Photographed by: Jasmin Porter
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MASS Gallery, Austin, TX

January 17, 2026 - February 14, 2026

Featuring work by sixteen artists across fiber, painting, sculpture, installation, collage, video, and drawing, the exhibition explores how identity and place are shaped, fragmented, and reassembled over time. Many works draw on objects tied to personal and collective memory—nostalgic, inherited, and everyday materials that ask what we carry with us, and why. Painted flora and fauna passed down through generations become vessels for reimagining lineage and survival, an ink handwritten note of words of affirmation on a table napkin acts as a fleeting moment, while plush, soft fiber-based works act as quiet proclamations of what we refuse to leave behind. Together, the artists question not only what is lost, but what is intentionally preserved, transformed, or released.