Changing Skins

A solo exhibition presented at Ishibashi Gallery explores the evolution of Maue’s deeply personal and poetic practice across embroidery, drawing, sculpture, and photography.

Drawing from the domestic landscape and her lived experience as a mother and caregiver, Maue illuminates moments of quiet beauty, transformation, and the invisible labor of care. Across media, she renders the intimate—and often overlooked—realities of daily life with a reverence that invites reflection on the complexity of human connection.

Changing Skins presents works from several of Maue’s ongoing series, including her acclaimed textile-based project Invisible Labor, the drawing series Dust and Cosmos, and new photographic works that reflect on the shifting intimacy between parent and child. The exhibition’s title is taken from one of the featured works and captures the emotional duality that runs throughout Maue’s practice: the simultaneous grief and yearning that accompany growth, aging, and change.

Site-Specific installation Changing Skins: Sibling: a sibling installation at Concord Arts as part of the group exhibition Motherhood as Muse

“Joetta viscerally communicates a mother’s intimate familiarity with her children’s bodies. Life is about contact. Children need it. We all do.” Cate Mcquaid of the Boston globe