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Photograph of a house with deep black siding. Several windows are lit. In front is a stone wall, a lamp on a pole, and a small red doll house to the left in front of a small grouping of trees.
February 17 - June 2, 2024

Sandra Matthews: Unearthing

Sandra Matthews’ works visualize layers of time and translate them into intricate images with powerful narratives.

This exhibition focuses on five projects that define distinct periods in Matthews’ career while emphasizing her attention to our discourse on history and placemaking. Unearthing explores our physical and emotional awareness of the passage of time, ideas of place and home in dialogue with the landscape, and finding solace in the familiar.

Click here for a video recording of Photographing Place and Time: An Artist Panel held on March 2, 2024.
Director and Curator Jessica Roscio moderated a panel discussion between artist Sandra Matthews; Dr. Laura Wexler, Yale University Professor of American Studies; and artist and MassArt Associate Professor of Photography Billie Mandle.
Gallery: Weinberg Gallery
Dates: February 17 - June 2, 2024
Participating artists: Sandra Matthews
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Photograph of a deep green metal fence around a plot of land.
Sandra Matthews, On Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Pentucket/Pawtucket homelands, Natick , 2021, Photograph
Photograph of a rounded bark house with exterior branches wrapped around. In front of this is a handicap parking spot and a small blue shed.
Sandra Matthews, On Wampanoag and Massachusett homelands. A reconstructed wetu at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth , 2019, Photograph
Photograph of a house with deep black siding. Several windows are lit. In front is a stone wall, a lamp on a pole, and a small red doll house to the left in front of a small grouping of trees.
Sandra Matthews, On Nipmuc and Pocumtuck homelands. Hatfield/Capawonk , 2015, Photograph
Photograph of five people standing in front of pine trees. Three are on the left. The two on the right are older versions of two of the children on the left.
Sandra Matthews, Sam, Lily, and Emma in 2010; Sam and Emma in 2018, Photograph
Photograph of four people seated in front of a wall of newspaper clippings. The woman on the left is holding a baby. The woman on the right is the baby, now grown up, holding her own baby.
Sandra Matthews, Amira and Nancy in 1989; Amira and Samari in 2008 , 2008, Photograph
Photograph of a deep green metal fence around a plot of land.
Sandra Matthews
On Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Pentucket/Pawtucket homelands, Natick , 2021, Photograph
Photograph of a rounded bark house with exterior branches wrapped around. In front of this is a handicap parking spot and a small blue shed.
Sandra Matthews
On Wampanoag and Massachusett homelands. A reconstructed wetu at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth , 2019, Photograph
Photograph of a house with deep black siding. Several windows are lit. In front is a stone wall, a lamp on a pole, and a small red doll house to the left in front of a small grouping of trees.
Sandra Matthews
On Nipmuc and Pocumtuck homelands. Hatfield/Capawonk , 2015, Photograph
Photograph of five people standing in front of pine trees. Three are on the left. The two on the right are older versions of two of the children on the left.
Sandra Matthews
Sam, Lily, and Emma in 2010; Sam and Emma in 2018 , Photograph
Photograph of four people seated in front of a wall of newspaper clippings. The woman on the left is holding a baby. The woman on the right is the baby, now grown up, holding her own baby.
Sandra Matthews
Amira and Nancy in 1989; Amira and Samari in 2008 , 2008, Photograph
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