Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present What Holds, a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Frances Trombly. Marking Trombly’s return to the gallery following her 2016 solo exhibition, this body of work continues her investigation into weaving, labor, and the structures that make visibility possible.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Leah Ollman described Trombly’s sculptures, weavings, and installations as “confident trespassers,” works that “meander into all sorts of territory, straddling genre lines and tunneling through hierarchical divides.” Nearly a decade later, that trespass has become more deliberate. In What Holds, the works resist a fixed category. They move across painting and sculpture, appearing as supports, tools, remnants, and propositions. The works seem to have arrived from the studio still carrying the pressure of their own making. At the center of the exhibition is the warp, the longitudinal threads that carry tension and give structure to woven cloth. Trombly brings this underlying system forward, where it operates as both subject and support. Warps hang exposed. Textiles slip from wooden frames. Handwoven surfaces are suspended, layered, or left partially formed. The conditions of making are not concealed or smoothed over. They remain. Process is not a step toward something else. It is the work.