Sara Hubbs

Sara Hubbs is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, drawing, video and sound. Her practice is grounded in blown and kiln-formed glass. glass.
About Sara Hubbs

Sara Hubbs completed a BFA in Painting at Arizona State University and an MFA in Visual Art at The George Washington University. Her work has been included in group shows at The Delaware Contemporary (2007), Ex-Teresa Arte Cultural in Mexico City (2008), Collarworks in Troy, NY (2022), The Tucson Museum of Art (2020) and Carnation Contemporary in Portland, OR (2020). In 2023, she presented a solo booth at NADA New York with Everybody from Tucson, AZ. Her work was included in New Glass Review 42 from the Corning Museum of Glass (2022) and her collaborative project, DelaLuz was shown at Espacio CDMX for Design Week Mexico in Mexico City (2023). Sara had a two-person show with Sarah Zapata at MOCA Tucson and was included in group shows at the Arizona State University Art Museum and in “Designing Motherhood” at The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2024). Her work is currently on view in the project space at Mesa Contemporary Art Museum. She was a founding member of the Stew-dio Visit Artist Collective, who created socially focused art and food events. Sara lives with her partner and child in Tucson, AZ.

Sara Hubbs
Preferred Pronouns: She/her
sarahubbs@gmail.com
https://www.sarahubbs.com
2024, mold-blown and cold-worked glass, aquarium sand and curtains, approximately 144 x 144 in
Costumes of Absence / Orchestra of Bodies

These pieces were made by blowing glass into a mold made of three metal hearts; hearts incorporated into security fences and gates in the Southwest. The glass pushed into the voids creating a group of varying bodies representing the act of longing.

2024, mold-blown glass, cold-worked, dimensions variable 7.5 x 27 x 6.5 in
The Weaning Vessels: Mother Daughter Mother, Claw Clip, BB’s, Hairpin

Based off of Bronze-Age ceramic vessels, I utilized plastic packaging from toys and food, to form the basis for these mold-blown glass vessels which question the shelf-life our experiences as mothers and the loss embedded in growth.

2024, mold-blown and cold-worked glass, dimensions variable, 5 x 108 x 84 in
Flower-be
Flower-be is a series of 108 mold-blown glass objects based on a mold of a bouquet of carnations. The algae based mold decayed as glass was repeatedly blown into it over the course of a few weeks. Each element in the installation represents the changed form of the organic mold.

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