Joetta Maue: Thresholds
Frame 301 Gallery
April 6 - July 4
Somerville-based artist, Joetta Maue, examines how time, labor, and attention register within the textures of everyday life. Thresholds, her installation for the 301 Frame Project Space, approaches the photographic image not as a visual record but as a material trace. Maue layers and suspends images, exploring the literal and metaphorical thresholds between image and object, interior and exterior, presence and absence. In one window, fragmented photographic constructions of domestic space—windows, curtains, and everyday objects—hover between image and architecture. The adjacent window contains suspended photographs of shifting light made through the recording of natural light moving across observed time in an interior room. Maue continues the observation and recording of the passage of light in the 301 vestibule, using paint colors that infer light in the name, including “Violet Dusk,” “First Light,” and “Early Dawn.” Through sustained observation and process, the work insists on attention as a form of care within a culture structured by distraction and acceleration.
Joetta Maue is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, drawing, textiles, and installation. Her practice examines labor, durational time, and embodied experience through sustained material inquiry.
Maue’s work has been exhibited at museums, universities, and nonprofit institutions throughout the United States and Europe, including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Emerson Contemporary, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Her work has been reviewed in The Boston Globe and published internationally in books and journals devoted to contemporary art, photography, and textile practice.
She has been awarded residencies at Millay Arts and Monson Arts, and at the Penland School of Craft and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, where she also served as Textiles Coordinator. Maue teaches in graduate and undergraduate programs in the Boston area and lives and works in Massachusetts.
