THE MOTHER GAME
Luca Molnar & Kat Shannon
$20 | Mixed Media
This is a pre-order. Release Date: July 7, 2026
Inspired by memories of childhood games, longtime collaborators Luca Molnar and Kat Shannon play with existing and invented game structures to examine notions of maternity. In one game, Molnar repurposes M.A.S.H. (Mansion / Apartment / Shack / House) to highlight the Supreme Court’s history of restricting reproductive rights. In another, Shannon uses the choose-your-own-adventure format to parallel the experience of navigating queer motherhood. Combining prose, photography and painting, The Mother Game explores the expansive concept of motherhood at the intersections of the personal, the collective, and the political.
Part of Burrow Press’ Affordable Collaborative Artist Book Series
| Release Date: July 7, 2026 // Visual Art, Mixed Media |
| $20 // 6″ x 8″ // Paperback // 88pp // Full color |
| ISBN: 978-1-941681-38-1 // Distributed by Asterism Books |
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Luca Molnar (b. 1991, Budapest, Hungary) is a painter, educator, and sometimes-writer based in Central Florida. Her paintings layer appropriated historical photographs with decorative patterns, scrapbooking what she refers to, somewhat self-deprecatingly, as unrigorous research with domestic visual culture. Their collage-like structure mirrors the scraps of women’s internal lives recorded in visual and written archives. It also reflects an understanding of history as fractured, nonlinear, and echoing.
Molnar grew up mostly in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she often felt like an outsider amongst the genteel Southern suburbanites and developed an obsession with Vera Bradley floral prints rooted in equal parts revulsion and aspiration. The Mother Game is her first book.
Other recent works include Worker Bees, a thirty-eight foot mural installed at the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando highlighting Floridian farmworkers and their advocates; The Beauty of Politics, a body of paintings developed in response to the Hand Art Center’s historic Oscar Bluemner collection and the 1913 Paterson silk strike; Painting Requests from Tomoka, an ongoing collaborative project pairing Community Education Project students incarcerated at Tomoka Correctional Institution with Stetson painting students; and Helybe, a site-specific installation that covered the gallery floor in tile in a Hungarian flame stitch pattern.
Kat Shannon (b. 1991) is an artist and educator working across photography, text, and video. Driven by a desire to continually examine the complex role photography plays in our lives, culture, and collective memory, her work uses the image as a tool to explore intimacy, connection, and community. Her lyrical photographs and texts probe the porous boundaries between truth and fiction, seeking to linger in their uneasy reciprocity.
She holds degrees in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (BFA) and Bard College (MFA) and is currently based between São Paulo, Brazil, and Orlando, Florida.
Kat has taught visual art and photography to students aged 5–75 and has held teaching positions at Yeshiva University, Brookdale College, Stetson University, Middlesex College, and others. In addition to teaching, she previously worked as Head Curator at an art consultancy in New York and as Artist Book Coordinator at an independent photography bookstore in Manhattan. In 2017, Kat co-founded the collaborative artist collective Memory Foam, through which she curates exhibitions, publishes and collects artists’ books and zines, and produces an artist interview series titled Artists Eat Ice Cream.