While Julia Phillips’s visual language remains informed by functional tools and ceramic body casts that serve as metaphors for social and psychological experiences, recent motherhood has complicated and expanded her visual and emotional arsenal. Her exhibition “ Me, Ourself & You” is on view now at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York through October 29. Below, the German-born, Chicago-based artist discusses her recent work in the context of the longer arc of her practice.MY WORK OFTEN STARTS with a title that describes a relation, a role, a person, a function all at once. My first language is
Years in the making, the exhibition "Designing Motherhood" at the MassArt Art Museum features 200 objects that explore the history of human reproduction, including IUDs, speculums and baby monitors.