Sara VanDerBeek (American, born 1976), Mother, 2023. UV print on plexiglass, anodized aluminum, 24 x 10 in. (61 x 25.4 cm) Edition 1 of 3. Courtesy of the Artist, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, and The Approach, London © Sara VanDerBeek.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art looks backward and forward with two new exhibitions this summer.
First: Veiled Presence: The Hidden Mothers and Sara VanDerBeek, open June 14 – November 30, 2025, explores the 19th-century photographs of children, and their mothers or caregivers who are elaborately concealed in textiles, obscured by furniture, or blotted or scratched out of the images entirely…