Bread and Bones

Mary Catherine Newcomb’s artistic practice is deeply engaged with the exploration of death, myth, rebirth, nature, and time. Her work often occupies paradoxical intersections of attraction and repulsion, myth and reality, and life and death. Bread and Bones is an exhibition in which Newcomb’s contemplation of life and death is manifested in a series of sculptures featuring plants growing out of animal corpses, bread baked into the skulls and bodies of dogs, hares, and chickens, and a hanging cow skeleton ornamented with intricate Talavera decorative motifs. Newcomb’s seductive work invites you into a fantastical space that is both strange and familiar, offering a distinct mode of reality and evoking terror and wonder.