Above Image: Lindsay Metivier, UNDER DEEP, 2025.
On View April 30 – June 29, 2025 | Gutter Box
In UNDER DEEP, Lindsay Metivier maps the sedimentation of memory—the way moments buckle, fold, and press into one another over time until their edges blur and fray. Polaroids collapse into dense strata; stapled fliers tangle text and image into near-oblivion. What was once sharp becomes complicated, and unresolved.Through acts of accumulation, obstruction, and rupture, the work suggests memory is not a fixed archive but a living, shifting field—mutable, unreliable, beautiful, and sometimes violent in its need to rewrite itself. Images meant to capture fleeting moments instead become buried and fragmented, shaped as much by forgetting and distortion as by remembrance.By physically layering materials, Metivier invites viewers to confront the tension between what is revealed and what remains hidden. Staples, once a means of fastening, now scar the surfaces, making the imagery beneath feel both aggressively held and partially erased. Polaroids, often symbols of instant nostalgia, are compressed into dense, tactile forms where individual frames lose their autonomy, absorbed into a larger mass.Here, memory is neither delicate nor whole. It is torn, layered, and obscured by its own accumulation. Metivier's work evokes the restlessness of memory — its tendency to peel, press, and fold back onto the present. UNDER DEEP asks viewers to stand at the threshold of remembering, misremembering, and forgetting, where clarity dissolves and only colors, textures, and stacks of distorted imagery remain.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lindsay Metivier is a photographer, an educator, a curator, and a gallerist based in Carrboro, North Carolina. She holds a BFA in both Photography and Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Art from UNC Chapel Hill. From 2011 to 2021, she was the proprietor of Aviary Gallery, an exhibition space with a digital photography lab located in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2020, Lindsay opened an art space called Peel Gallery + Photo Lab in Carrboro, North Carolina. Her work has been exhibited widely, most recently at Light Art and Design, Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, LUMP gallery, Oneoneone Gallery, The Nasher Museum at Duke University, The Ackland Art Museum, The John and June Allcott Gallery, The Front Gallery, and Transmitter. Her work has been featured on The Heavy Collective, Humble Arts Foundation, and A New Nothing. Most recently her work can be found on the cover of Oxford American Magazine
ABOUT GUTTER BOX
NCMA Winston-Salem is proud to host Gutter Box at the Main Gallery entrance. Gutter Box is a sculptural object and contemporary art gallery conceived and built by artist Louis Watts and made from a retrofitted newspaper distribution box donated by Indy Week. It is a blank space, a void paused in the center of daily activity. It is a chamber of potential between the space, artists, and audience. It once was used to disseminate information via newspaper but has been repurposed as an unexpected white cube gallery space.
Originally the box lived outside of Lump, an artist-run gallery in Raleigh, NC. The project now lives in front of NCMA Winston-Salem. Gutter Box offers artists of all disciplines, interests, and locations an opportunity to bend their ideas into this funky little white box. It also provides the passer-by with a brief and surprising encounter with a contemporary gallery space.
Learn more about the project at https://www.gutterboxgallery.com/