Joetta Maue: Thresholds
Frame 301 Gallery
ARTIST RECEPTION: Saturday, June 13, 12-2pm
301 Cabot Street, Beverly

Somerville-based artist, Joetta Maue, examines how time, labor, and attention register within the textures of everyday life. In her installation for the 301 Frame Project Space, Maue 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 Thresholds, fragmented photographic constructions of domestic space—windows, curtains, and everyday objects—hover between image and architecture. Transition to Darkness contains suspended photographs of shifting light—representative of the color curves in photography—made through the recording of natural light moving across observed time in an interior room. Maue continues her 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.