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National Museum of Women in the Arts

Marlo Pascual: Making Something Out of Something

A detail shot of a black-and-white image of a person’s face printed on plexiglas that has been shattered in the center.
Jul 24, 2026, to Feb 28, 2027

Blurring the boundaries between photography and sculpture, the art of Marlo Pascual (b. 1972, Nashville; d. 2020, Philadelphia) transforms what is familiar into something uncanny, prompting deeper contemplation. Using anonymous pictures sourced from thrift stores and their online counterparts, Pascual used techniques of enlargement, fragmentation, and obfuscation to upend viewers’ expectations. While these alterations can be humorous, there is also an implied discomfort in the abrupt cropping of limbs, faces obscured by objects, or physical destruction of images by shattering, tearing, or folding.

Through her interventions, Pascual exaggerated and highlighted the artifice of these found images. Frequently encasing the enlarged images in thick Plexiglas and pairing them with common yet unexpected objects, Pascual gave them new life and a newly charged aesthetic function. By enlarging them well beyond their intended size, to a scale commensurate with furniture or sculpture, she asserted the physicality of the images, giving them volume and form.

Featuring seventeen of Pascual’s works made between 2009 and 2014, this exhibition demonstrates the artist’s methods of recontextualizing her original source material. Through dramatic changes to scale, adding repurposed objects, and other transformations, Pascual created works that urge viewers to see everyday imagery from a new perspective.

Black and white photographic portrait of woman with light complexion and blond hair over which is superimposed the image of an open hand.

Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2013; Digital C-print, 50 1/8 x 40 1/8 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Heather and Tony Podesta Collection; © Estate of Marlo Pascual; Image courtesy of Casey Kaplan, New York

Exhibition Sponsors

Marlo Pascual: Making Something Out of Something is organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and generously supported by the members of NMWA.