In her 2006 solo show, Wetmore was fascinated by her own pregnancy as a surreal and gross physical transformation. She made colorful rubber Boob Balls, brass Pregnant Mud Flap Girls, and Split, a life-sized sculpture in which she is pulling herself up through the floor, to face her own legs dangling from the ceiling. This was inspired by her ambivalence about her ticking biological clock: "I felt like I had two brains - one in my head and one in my uterus," says Wetmore, "I continue to make art about my amusement at the new perks of motherhood, particularly the paraphernalia: breast pumps, fetal cord cryogenics, and ads targeted to new parents."

Wetmore is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Michigan.

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Boston Globe Article by Cate McQuaid: "A Marriage of Art and Humor"