Upcoming Exhibition
Inventory
Opening Reception: August 28, 2026, 6-8PM
On view through September 4, 2026
In this exhibition, Marks, Porras, and Tejeda Mata consider existence during times of transition and temporary placehood. Individually, each artist catalogs their histories and unique perceptions of the past to make sense of their intersecting present. Together, these memories commingle, creating a substantive collection of new prints, zines, and paper sculptures that define their present moment.
Marks, Porras, and Tejeda Mata are currently studio interns at WSW. This nearly 50-year-old program offers young people interested in a career in art valuable hands-on training and studio access. Interns receive a stipend and housing on WSW’s campus.
About the Artists
Daniella Porras-Sholes is a multidisciplinary artist who creates sculptures and prints exploring her need to desperately hold onto memories and spaces before they inevitably vanish. By using handmade overbeaten paper to print on while it is wet or to cast over found objects, she attempts to capture a moment using materials that repel the very act of control. The paper decides what details get carried into the final piece, making her confront her own inability to keep something the same. Paper holds memory, but it is malleable, echoing how humans remember. This uncontrollable process of papermaking distorts, shrivels and pulls away, mimicking in a physical form how fickle memory is. By taking objects or photos from her own environment, she creates site-specific work, painstakingly adhering the paper to an object that attempts to do what will never be possible: replicate a moment in time.
Ruth Marks is a printmaker and illustrator whose work exposes the ways in which people across time and space are entangled and connected. She uses scenes of ordinary situations and everyday life to show how things slowly change over time. She believes that these inevitabilities of change, both small and drastic, are what unite people together. A person is composed of layers of history, human connection, and memories. They are an amalgamation of the past, present, and future. So is a print!
Heidi D. Tejeda Mata is a printmaker from Southern California. Her work documents her life as a young second-generation Mexican-American woman, drawing from cherished yet troubled memories surrounding adolescence and her relationship to womanhood, family, her ethnic home, and food. She joins fragments to create narratives that speak to the perseverance of Mexican immigrant families, underscoring and affirming that value, beauty, and joy are inherently present in otherwise marginalized existences. Her work takes on a modest, delicate appearance with a bittersweet undertone. Through a juxtaposition of loose and rigid mark-making and forms, the use of both warm and cool colors, and consideration of the printed material, she both softens and sharpens the impact of the real stories of personal, socioeconomic, and cultural struggle that shape each image.