Rebecca VanDiver digs deeper into Carving out Time by LaToya M. Hobbs

Curator Rebecca VanDiver takes a closer look at LaToya M. Hobbs' monumental woodcarving Carving Out Time, which anchors the Carving A New Tradition exhibition at the Frist Art Museum and highlights her ongoing explorations of Black womanhood, identity, and artistic legacy that reverberate through the other artworks on view. Hobbs honors the rich traditions of printmaking and her Black artistic foremothers while pushing medium’s boundaries, exhibiting the matrix as object and incorporating mixed-media elements.