The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB) will open the exhibit How Forever Works, featuring photographic assemblages and camera-less works by Jacqueline Woods, with a reception, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, June 13 at the Architectural Foundation Art Gallery, 229 E. Victoria St., Santa Barbara.

The exhibit will be on view until Aug. 15.

Over the past four decades, Woods has developed a deeply reflective photographic practice exploring memory, perception, and the emotional resonance of found imagery, organizers said.

“Working with small, physically aged photographs, worn and marked by time, she preserves their materiality while reconfiguring them into new forms,” AFSB said

“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. …,” Woods said.

“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,” she said.

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

“In addition to her sustained engagement with traditional and vernacular photography, Woods has created works made without a camera or lens, using only paper, chemistry, and light — expanding the material and conceptual boundaries of the photographic medium,” organizers said.

Her work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, tracing an evolving dialogue between personal history and collective experience.

Recent highlights include participation this year in the Inaugural Exhibition at Gallerie Bleu in Collioure, France, and the AIPAD Photography Fair in New York City.

In 2024, her work was featured in ReWritten: Photographers Reshaping the Narrative at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, placing her among artists redefining contemporary photographic storytelling.

Her international presence includes 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).

Gallery hours are 1-4 p.m. Saturdays and by appointment; closed July 4. For more, call 805-965-6307 or email info@afsb.org.