Kate Newby Cuts Windows Into Gallery Walls in Solo Show 'Can't find water'

New glass windows cut directly into gallery walls bring daylight into previously enclosed spaces in Kate Newby's solo exhibition 'Can't find water'. The show gathers recent works by the Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist, who has lived and worked in South Texas for years and has spent more than two decades stretching the limits of sculpture. Her practice dissolves distinctions between object, architecture and landscape, and the new pieces occupy the exhibition space across all its dimensions rather than simply sitting within it. Ceramic forms spread over the walls and run from floor to ceiling, while suspended glass works are also on view. Clay, bronze, glass and plant fibre form the limited material vocabulary she works with. The presentation follows her bronze air vents, installed at the gallery entrance in 2022. By working into the building's masonry, the sculptures change the architecture itself, and the artist frames her approach around how a place is understood and experienced — her works take part in inhabiting a site rather than merely occupying it.