Beatriz Mejia Krumbein | Rebecca Waring-Crane
With This Body

February 14th - March 8th, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 14th, 7-10 pm

Monte Vista Projects is pleased to present With This Body, a two-person exhibition by Rebecca Waring-Crane and Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein.

Waring-Crane’s sculptures merge the human form with domestic objects and natural elements, creating poignant meditations on identity, sacrifice, and belonging. A bronze-cast human arm replacing a chair leg evokes a maternal sacrifice to nurture the others, and upside down feet emerging from a tree form resembling our effort to contort ourselves to fit within familial and social structures. Waring-Crane’s works ultimately find poetry in the nuances of embodied transformation within the mundane objects.

Following a profound physical transformation after a stroke, Mejia-Krumbein’s textural wall pieces represent her artistic evolution from figurative social justice work to abstract explorations of material. Her compositions of sand and beach findings create topographical landscapes that echo the body’s vulnerability and resilience. These works map both physical terrain and internal landscapes of recovery, adaptation, and renewal.

Together, these artists reveal how the body—whether present, abstracted, or transformed—remains central to our understanding of place and identity. Their works speak to the ways we physically and metaphorically reshape ourselves and our environments, transforming limitation into possibility and fragmentation into wholeness. Through their distinct yet complementary practices, Waring-Crane and Mejia-Krumbein invite us to consider how we are simultaneously shaped by and shapers of the materials that constitute our lives.