Lost and Found

Opening: Saturday, January 17th 6-9pm
On view Saturdays from 12-5pm through February 14th

Join us at MASS Gallery on Saturday, January 17, 6–9 PM for the opening of “Lost and Found,” an open call exhibition curated by artist Yvette Mayorga.

Featuring work by sixteen artists across fiber, painting, sculpture, installation, collage, video, and drawing, the exhibition explores how identity and place are shaped, fragmented, and reassembled over time. Many works draw on objects tied to personal and collective memory—nostalgic, inherited, and everyday materials that ask what we carry with us, and why. Painted flora and fauna passed down through generations become vessels for reimagining lineage and survival, an ink handwritten note of words of affirmation on a table napkin acts as a fleeting moment, while plush, soft fiber-based works act as quiet proclamations of what we refuse to leave behind. Together, the artists question not only what is lost, but what is intentionally preserved, transformed, or released.

“Lost and Found” is part of Yvette Mayorga’s community engagement and ongoing research for her public art commission at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport’s new Concourse B, estimated to open in the early 2030s. 

This exhibition is organized by MASS Gallery. The public art project is commissioned by the City of Austin through the Art in Public Places Program and sponsored by Austin Aviation.

Poster designed by Claudia Gizell Aparicio Gamundi

Participating Artists

  1. Sophia Hatzikos

  2. Emily Lawson

  3. Rewon Shimray

  4. Renee Lai

  5. Sonya Berg

  6. Chantal Lesley

  7. Roberto Jackson Harrington

  8. Xochi Solis

  9. Lorena Diosdado

  10. Edward Gia

  11. Victoria Cantu

  12. Bárbara Miñarro

  13. Yasmine Barrón Marquez

  14. Guadalupe Najar

  15. Nymera Thornton

  16. Javier Robelo