Monica Lugo + Sam Rawls: A Todas Horas

“A Todas Horas” (At All Hours) combines the unique visual styles of South Texas-based artists Monica Lugo and Sam Rawls, forming a visual union through remote collaboration to explore color, organic forms, the female body, pattern, and typography. The exhibition showcases illustrated vignettes that aim to reflect, celebrate, vent, and validate shared experiences, disadvantages, and emotions amongst women and mothers shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. The work focuses on concepts of adaptation, balance, and the artist’s duality of parenting and art-making through the limitations of lockdown. The collection expresses intimate fragments of everyday life often neglected or silenced, moments of solitude and companionship, triumphs and defeats, certainty and confusion, fear and effort, and incessant thoughts that roam in the conscious and subconscious mind.