AFSB Announces Summer time Exhibition: How Forever Works by Jacqueline Woods, June 13 – August 15

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The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara is happy to announce the upcoming exhibition, How Forever Works, that includes photographic assemblages and camera-less works by Jacqueline Woods.  An opening reception can be held on Saturday, June thirteenth from 2 to 4 p.m. on the Architectural Foundation’s Art Gallery (229 East Victoria Street, Santa Barbara). All are welcome.

Over the previous 4 many years, Jacqueline Woods has developed a deeply reflective photographic observe exploring reminiscence, notion, and the emotional resonance of discovered imagery. Working with small, bodily aged images, worn and marked by time, she preserves their materiality whereas reconfiguring them into new varieties.

“Smitten with these small objects, they have found their way into my life and my work… I keep a small stack of snapshots on a table next to my bed and frequent them in the daily defeat and elation of life…They are small slices of the rhythm and scope of life that reassure me that I am not alone in my experience and remind me that I am just as human as all those before me.”

Art critic Leah Ollman noticed in a 2019 Los Angeles Times evaluation, that Woods’ assemblages render the “personal as well as cultural loss” embedded within the shift from analog to digital images.

In addition to her sustained engagement with conventional and vernacular images, Woods has created works made with out a digicam or lens, utilizing solely paper, chemistry, and light-weight—increasing the fabric and conceptual boundaries of the photographic medium.

Her work has been extensively exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, tracing an evolving dialogue between private historical past and collective expertise.

Recent highlights embody participation within the Inaugural Exhibition at Gallerie Bleu in Collioure, France (2026), and the AIPAD Photography Fair in New York City (2026). In 2024, her work was featured in ReWritten: Photographers Reshaping the Narrative at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, inserting her amongst artists redefining modern photographic storytelling. Her worldwide presence contains the Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam (2022) and Photo London at Somerset House (2021), alongside her solo exhibition New Works at Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles (2021).