Opening reception – Good Luck Gallery

Good Luck Gallery Presents Falling Through the Spiral
A group exhibition exploring motherhood, artistic practice, and the evolving nature of identity

Falling Through the Spiral brings together five artists whose practices have been shaped, challenged, and expanded through motherhood. Rather than presenting motherhood as a singular experience, the exhibition embraces its contradictions—creation and exhaustion, tenderness and grief, routine and transformation. The works reflect the ways parenting reshapes perception, time, memory, and the creative process itself.

The exhibition title references the nonlinear experience of motherhood: a life that rarely moves in straight lines, but instead circles, repeats, deepens, and continually returns us to ourselves from new perspectives. Like a spiral, each season revisits familiar emotions while revealing unexpected growth.

"Motherhood has fundamentally changed the way I understand creativity," says gallery founder Tessa Heck. "This exhibition isn't simply about being mothers—it's about what happens to an artist's practice when life is divided into before and after children. These artists have created work that feels deeply personal while speaking to something profoundly universal."

Featuring painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition offers a nuanced conversation around identity, labor, memory, and making. While rooted in the experiences of motherhood, the work resonates beyond parenthood, inviting viewers to consider the ways we are continually remade by the relationships and responsibilities that shape our lives.

Artists: Anya Roberts-Toney, Claire Elliott, Melissa Monroe, Claiborne Colombo, Tessa Heck
Curator: Ashley Gifford, Art & About PDX
Exhibition Dates: July 31 – September 11, 2026
Location: Good Luck Gallery, 127 Main Street, Kalispell, MT