The exhibit Preserved finds Holly Ballard Martz repurposing found objects into a targeted examination of society’s incessant pressure to arrest the aging process. Vintage vanity trays inlaid with flesh-toned silicone are punctured with hundreds of disposable injection needles, spelling out loaded language and demonstrating the lengths taken and pain incurred to achieve ultimately empty epithets. This same silicone has been cast to resemble classically cut gems and prong-set into a pendant necklace, suggesting evocative context for “costume jewelry” in which a woman’s aging body is divorced from personhood and judged only by what hangs from it. Meanwhile, a vintage medicine cabinet shows off a skyline of unlabeled containers for all the countless lotions, potions, and serums marketed to women with the promise of youth in perpetuity. Lit from the interior, textured acrylic doors serve to obfuscate that promise, and the distorted, illusory reflections remind the viewer not all is as a label claims.