“MOTHER TIME: Measuring ourselves within the landscape brings together the photographic practices of Rachel Cox and Rose Marie Cromwell, two artists whose distinct practices explore intimacy as something continuously shaped by environment, memory, and care. Moving fluidly between portraiture, landscape, and personal narrative, both artists consider how bodies exist within larger social and geographic terrains, asking how we locate ourselves—and one another—within spaces marked by both strength and vulnerability, history and transformation.

As mothers to young daughters, Cox and Cromwell approach photography as both an act of witnessing and a form of caretaking. Their images navigate the shifting boundaries between public and private life, foregrounding the emotional textures of domestic experience while remaining attentive to the broader cultural and political landscapes that surround them. In Cox’s work, moments of tenderness and exposure emerge through close observation of familial and interpersonal relationships, balancing empathy with an unflinching honesty. Cromwell’s photographs move fluidly between documentary and poetic image-making, layering personal histories with wider social realities to reveal the instability of borders between bodies, places, and generations. “ - Rachel Adams, Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art