MOTHER TIME: Measuring ourselves within the landscape
MOTHER TIME: Measuring ourselves within the landscape brings together photographers Rachel Cox and Rose Marie Cromwell, whose distinct yet overlapping practices explore the complexities of closeness—emotional, physical, and spatial. Cox turns her lens toward the tenderness and vulnerability found within familial and personal relationships, offering portraits that balance empathy with candor. Cromwell weaves together personal and political narratives, tracing the fluid boundaries between public life and private experience. Together, their works create a dialogue about existing within the varied landscapes of the United States, what it means to witness and to be witnessed, and unveiling intimacy not as a fixed state but as a shifting terrain of connection, memory, and care.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a collaborative artist book created by both artists and curator.
About the Artists
Rachel Cox is a contemporary artist working primarily in the disciplines of image-based media. Her work explores themes of reproduction, mothering, and personal autonomy through photography, printmaking, and historical analog processes. Cox holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. Her work has been featured widely in the US and abroad, including the Joslyn Art Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, the Des Moines Art Center, Southeast Museum of Photography, The Belfast International Photography Festival, The Musee del'Elysee (Lausanne, Switzerland), Museo Amparo (Pueblo, Mexico), and Photo London.
Rose Marie Cromwell is a photographer and artist from Seattle, based in Miami. Her first book, El Libro Supremo de la Suerte (TIS Books, 2018), won the Light Work Photobook Prize and was named one of TIME’s 25 Best Photobooks of 2018. She later published Eclipse (TIS Books) and A More Fluid Atmosphere (Pomegranate Press) in 2021.
In 2024, Cromwell presented her first solo museum exhibition at ICA Miami, a solo exhibition at Pier 24 Photography, and was included in Truth Told Slant at the High Museum of Art. Her work has also been exhibited at the Norton Museum of Art, Aperture Foundation, and The Carnegie as part of the FotoFocus Biennial. In 2025, she had a solo exhibition with VISU Gallery in Miami and exhibited with EUQINOM Gallery at ZⓈONAMACO and Photo London. She opened her first solo exhibition with EUQINOM Gallery in November 2025. Her work will also be included in the 2026 Florida Prize exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art.
Cromwell is a recipient of a Fulbright Grant and a Getty Reportage Grant and was an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Getty, the High Museum of Art, ICA Miami, the Norton Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Rose Marie Cromwell, The Cactus, 2026. Archival inkjet print. 30 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Rachel Cox, Self Injection (Intramuscular, August 2022), 2023. Archival inkjet print. 24 x 30 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Rose Marie Cromwell, The Tree, 2025. Archival inkjet print. 50 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Rachel Cox, Untitled (the second nest I found), 2026. Silver gelatin print. 32 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Rachel Cox, V, M, and Egg, 2026. Silver gelatin print. 32 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
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