April Fools

Teena Maree is a hidden gem—an artist whose architectural training shapes not just her creations, but the spaces they inhabit. This exhibit unfolds as a spatial journey, guiding viewers through emotion-charged acrylic and mixed-media portraits of female faces, and into the intricate realm of her figurative sculptures—each one a fusion of the discarded and the divine. With every stitch, scrap, and salvaged fragment, Maree weaves stories of identity, memory, beauty, trauma, and the unyielding resilience of the human spirit. Her work offers a tender postmortem of what we keep, what we hide, and what we ultimately become. In her hands, the doll—a long-standing emblem of innocence and gendered perfection—emerges transformed. Beheaded, reconstructed, and adorned with ancestral relics and obscure artifacts from across the world, these totemic figures speak of fracture and repair, of the ways we dismantle and reassemble ourselves through life’s rawest passages. Step inside her world, and you may just find yourself piecing together your own.