Waterways: Lashed and Tethered

Art Complex Museum
Duxbury, Massachusetts
February 15–May 15, 2026

Mo Kelman’s sculptural artworks are driven by contrasts and interactions between the built environment and the natural world, merging abstracted images of water in its various forms—rivers, lakes, clouds and ice—with industrial and architectural structures. Kelman favors simple, malleable materials such as wood, wire and bamboo and uses geometric logic to invent efficient construction methods. Onto these structures she integrate “skins” by crafting nets or by resist-dyeing white silk organza into elastic, translucent, woodgrain-patterned membranes. Many of the sculptures are tensile structures where the pliable membranes are tethered, stretched, and shaped through tension.