Jan 10 – 31, 2026
Description: "Mother" gathers artists who are excavating the oldest, most shape-shifting force we know: Mothering. The act of making, tending, holding, breaking, and becoming. Rather than defining “mother” as a role or identity, the works in this exhibition treat it as an elemental impulse, a generative engine that builds worlds as easily as it dismantles them. Across sculpture, painting, textiles, sound, film, and written language, the artists explore the ways care can be both tender and volcanic, how lineage can illuminate or obscure, and how the daily labor of sustaining life coexists with myth, memory, and revolt. The pieces move between the intimate and the archetypal: a small gesture becomes a tectonic shift; a universal symbol arrives cracked, reimagined, or lovingly defaced. In a cultural moment saturated with performative dominance, where extractive, competitive, and hyper-individualized modes of power often shape public life, Mother proposes a counter-framework. The exhibition elevates relational intelligence, interdependence, and generative attention as vital creative alternatives. Here, power is not asserted through force or spectacle but cultivated through connection, insight, focus, and care. www.thisisnorthstreet.org This exhibition features work from the 2025 North Street Project cohort, a group of artists who gathered over many months to explore mothering as a creative, philosophical, and social inquiry. Through shared prompts, conversations, experiments, and fieldwork, the cohort collectively probed what it means to make art from practices of care, repair, and imagination, especially within systems that undervalue them. Their work reflects the textured dialogues, tensions, and revelations that emerged during this process. The North Street Project is an artist-driven initiative designed to help artists move into the next stage of their work. Through structured support, community exchange, and deep engagement with personal sources of inspiration, North Street provides a space where artists can reconnect to what animates their practice. The project centers curiosity, collaboration, and the slow-building of creative momentum, helping artists locate both each other and themselves in their evolving trajectories. Taken together, Mother is not a portrait but a constellation. It invites viewers to consider mothering as a form of world-building: messy, porous, inventive, and profoundly human. In this gathering of perspectives, the maternal is reclaimed not as a biological fact or sentimental trope, but as a radical, expansive framework for making meaning and making art.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 4.00" × 5.00"
Price: $2,880
Medium: acrylic and gouache on canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" × 24.00"
Price: $150
Medium: neon infinity mirror
Dimensions: 43.00" × 20.00" × 5.00"
Price: $950
Medium: Embroidery muslin, czech glass beads, plastic pearls and sequins
Dimensions: 45.00" × 45.00" × 1.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: glazed Porcelaine
Dimensions: 23.00" × 23.00" × 10.00"
Price: upon request
Medium: Nylon inflatable figure, fan
Dimensions: 16.00" × 16.00" × 79.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: Poplar, shetland wool
Dimensions: 3.25" × 14.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: Linen jacquard fabric from Tostmann Trachten, Vienna; Linen / cotton blend fabric; Thread; Vintage clothespins
Dimensions: 75.00" × 60.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Wax on paper
Dimensions: approximately 12 by 8
Price: Upon request
Medium: Watercolor and acrylic
Dimensions: 8.00" × 10.00"
Price: $150
Medium: Watercolor and acrylic
Dimensions: 6.00" × 8.00"
Price: Priced separately
Medium: Watercolor and paper
Dimensions: 6.00" × 8.00"
Price: Priced separately
Medium: Watercolor and mixed media
Dimensions: 18.00" × 24.00"
Price: $500
Medium: Watercolor and acrylic
Dimensions: 9.00" × 12.00"
Price: $250
Medium: Watercolor and acrylic
Dimensions: 9.00" × 12.00"
Price: $250
Medium: Watercolor and acrylic
Dimensions: 9.00" × 12.00"
Price: $250
Medium: EcoPoxy Resin. Bamboo wood California cutout
Dimensions: 14.00" × 11.00"
Price: $95
Medium: Ecopoxy Resin.Acrylic.Wood
Dimensions: 18.00" × 1.50"
Price: $165
Medium: Ecopoxy Resin.Walnut Wood.Clay.
Dimensions: 0.00" × 0.00"
Price: $388
Medium: Ecopoxy Resin- Maple Skateboard Decks
Dimensions: 31.75" × 8.00"
Price: $475
Medium: Clay-Ecopoxy Resin-Aluminum Round Mirror
Dimensions: 30.00" × 30.00"
Price: $375
Medium: Ecopoxy Resin. Spray Paint. Pine Wood
Dimensions: 5.00" × 1.50"
Price: $888
Medium: Ecopoxy Resin.Wood
Dimensions: 3.00" × 15.00"
Price: $280
Medium: pencil, watercolor pencil, and pen on 100% cotton cold-pressed 140 lb. paper
Dimensions: 12.00" × 16.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: pencil, watercolor pencil, and pen on 100% cotton cold-pressed 140 lb. paper
Dimensions: 12.00" × 16.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: pencil, watercolor pencil, pen, photographs, paper, and glue on 100% cotton cold-pressed 140 lb. paper
Dimensions: 12.00" × 16.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: Sharpie on 100% cotton rag paper
Dimensions: 7.00" × 9.40"
Price: NFS
Medium: digital print on paper
Dimensions: 5.75" × 9.25"
Price: NFS
Medium: pencil, watercolor pencil, and pen on 100% cotton cold-pressed 140 lb. paper
Dimensions: 12.00" × 16.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: pencil, watercolor pencil, and pen on 100% cotton cold-pressed 140 lb. paper
Dimensions: 12.00" × 16.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: digital print on cardstock
Dimensions: 8.50" × 11.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: pencil, watercolor pencil, and pen on 100% cotton cold-pressed 140 lb. paper
Dimensions: 12.00" × 16.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: Print
Dimensions: 811.00" × 8.50"
Price: time bank, trade, or free
Medium: powdered charcoal; crushed marble; powdered graphite; diamond dust; crushed egg shells; stream water from the Dawn Falls Trail; clay from the Dawn Falls Trail stream bed; sand collected from Rodeo beach; powdered iron oxide; water from the Pacific Ocean; liquid latex; sounds of my children screaming, laughing, and singing; sounds of the Dawn Falls creek, sound of the ocean, sound of me singing
Dimensions: 5.00" × 3.00"
Price: Upon request
Medium: graphite on archival paper
Dimensions: 15.00" × 12.00" × 3.00"
Price: $800
Medium: graphite on archival paper
Dimensions: 15.00" × 12.00" × 3.00"
Price: $800
Medium: hand-cranked music box, punched card
Dimensions:
Price: NFS
Medium: Four-channel video and sound installation
Dimensions: 120.00" × 120.00"
Price: NFS
Medium: Suite of four digital lithographs Single edition (1/1)
Dimensions: 12.00" × 12.00" × 1.00"
Price: $800
Medium: Clay, paper, leather, ink
Dimensions: 2.00" × 2.00" × 6.00"
Price: Upon request
Medium: Ink, oil paint, thread, sequins, glass beads, found poem derived from an excerpt of Simon Schama's book Landscape and Memory (archival ink on vellum)
Dimensions: 10.00" × 15.00" × 9.00"
Price: Upon request
Medium: Ink, oil paint, thread, sequins, glass beads, found poem derived from an excerpt of Simon Schama's book Landscape and Memory (archival ink on vellum)
Dimensions: 15.00" × 10.00" × 9.00"
Price: Upon request
Medium: pencil and archival ink on paper
Dimensions: 17.00" × 21.00" × 1.00"
Price: Upon request
Medium: fabric, acrylic paint, glass beads
Dimensions: 10.00" × 4.50"
Price: Upon request
