Matéria Gallery

🔥 TONIGHT 🔥 5-7 pm 🔥 Bianca Beck’s See Me Plural opens with a reception with the artist from 5-7 pm💫

Matéria Gallery is pleased to present See Me Plural, Bianca Beck’s first solo exhibition in Detroit.

See Me Plural presents paintings started pre-conception and worked cumulatively over the course of three years in which Beck watched their child develop from an embryo in sonograms to now, an almost two-year-old. This art is made from the messiness and magic of unbroken days and nights with an infant and also the breaking of patterns that they enact as a q***r parent in an un-gendered family. The variations in line, style, time, space, and buildup of paint are both a reflection and an accumulation of this life.

👉🏽Link to full Press Release: https://www.materia-art.com/beck-see-me-plural

🔥 TONIGHT 🔥 5-7 pm 🔥 Simon Anton and Bilge Nur Saltik: Inside/Outside opens at Materia’s EDITION space in conjunction with the Detroit Month of Design 💫

Inside/Outside explores design ideas that exist in both inside and outside manifestations, and blur the lines between art - design - architecture. The project takes place in Matéria Gallery’s EDITION ( ) space in Detroit’s Core City neighborhood. Each artist/design studio will present a new collection of works as part of the exhibition.

Simon Anton’s works are made using an experimental process of grafting waste plastic onto sculpted metal armatures by wrapping them in heating wire and submerging them in vats of locally sourced plastic waste. Over time the plastic grows onto the armatures, creating colorful 3D wall works - part painting, part sculpture, part architectural study. All works are in the vein of plastic material research which Anton has been engaging with since 2012. Anton’s works for the exhibition include a new collection of small studies and a larger wall sculpture that juxtapose plastic waste with the language of architectural ornamentation.

Bilge Nur Saltik’s studio practice spans across multiple design disciplines and mediums, reimagining timeless materials such as glass, ceramic, stone, wood, and fabric, and incorporating new technologies, to bring new objects to life. For Inside/Outside, Nur will be presenting The Essence Collection, an exploration of organic forms through the lens of parametric design. In this new body of work, the designer delves into the complexities of curvilinear surfaces, utilizing advanced parametric techniques to create intricate, fluid geometries.

👉🏽 Link to full Press Release: https://www.materia-art.com/inside-outside



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A Detroit moment with artist BIanca Beck during the installation of their solo exhibition “See Me Plural” 💕 opening to the public THIS SATURDAY, Sept. 14, with a reception with the artist from 5-7 pm 💫

See Me Plural presents paintings started pre-conception and worked cumulatively over the course of three years in which Beck watched their child develop from an embryo in sonograms to now, an almost two-year-old. This art is made from the messiness and magic of unbroken days and nights with an infant and also the breaking of patterns that they enact as a q***r parent in an un-gendered family. The variations in line, style, time, space, and buildup of paint are both a reflection and an accumulation of this life.
👉🏽 Link to full Press Release: https://www.materia-art.com/beck-see-me-plural

BIANCA BECK
Bianca Beck (b. 1979, Columbus, OH) earned a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. The artist has participated in exhibitions at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME; Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Tif Sigfrids Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; White Columns, New York, NY; Cheim & Read, New York, NY; and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY among others. Beck currently has work on view at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, and Art Omi Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY. They are a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Helen Winternitz Award for Excellence in Painting at Yale University, New Haven, CT; The Ox-Bow School of Art Fellowship Program, Saugatuck, MI; and Artist-in-Residence at Complimenta, Ithaca, NY. Beck’s work is in the permanent collection of the Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX, and the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX. Beck currently lives and works in Portland, ME.

A moment installing with artist and designer Simon Anton 💫💫 Simon Anton and Bilge Nur Saltik’s exhibition “Inside/Outside,” part of the Detroit Month of Design, opens THIS SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, in Matéria’s EDITION space ( ) with a reception with the designers from 5-7 pm 🔥🔥🔥

Simon Anton’s works are made using an experimental process of grafting waste plastic onto sculpted metal armatures by wrapping them in heating wire and submerging them in vats of locally sourced plastic waste. Over time the plastic grows onto the armatures, creating colorful 3D wall works - part painting, part sculpture, part architectural study. All works are in the vein of plastic material research which Anton has been engaging with since 2012. Anton’s works for the exhibition include a new collection of small studies and a larger wall sculpture that juxtapose plastic waste with the language of architectural ornamentation.

👉🏽 Link to full press release: https://www.materia-art.com/inside-outside

A moment installing with designer Bilge Nur Saltik 💫💫🤎💙
Simon Anton and Bilge Nur Saltik’s exhibition “Inside/Outside,” part of the Detroit Month of Design, opens THIS SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, in Matéria’s EDITION space ( ) with a reception with the designers from 5-7 pm 🔥🔥🔥

Bilge Nur Saltik’s studio practice spans across multiple design disciplines and mediums, reimagining timeless materials such as glass, ceramic, stone, wood, and fabric, and incorporating new technologies, to bring new objects to life. For Inside/Outside, Nur will be presenting The Essence Collection, an exploration of organic forms through the lens of parametric design. In this new body of work, the designer delves into the complexities of curvilinear surfaces, utilizing advanced parametric techniques to create intricate, fluid geometries. The material choice, 3D printed copper, is particularly compelling, as it embodies a deceptive quality that challenges the viewer’s perception of form and substance. Over time, the copper interacts with natural elements, evolving and changing, adding an additional layer of meaning to the work. The result is dynamic pieces that bridge the gap between digital fabrication and the organic processes of nature, inviting contemplation on the relationship between man-made structures and the natural world.
👉🏽 Link to full press release: https://www.materia-art.com/inside-outside

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OPENING SEPT 14 ✨ Matéria Gallery is pleased to present Inside/Outside, a special exhibition of new works by Detroit-based designers Simon Anton and Bilge Nur Saltik, in conjunction with the Detroit Month of Design 💚💫 The project takes place at Matéria’s EDITION space ( ) in Detroit’s Core City neighborhood. Each artist/design studio will present a new collection of works as part of the exhibition.

IMAGES: 1- Simon Anton, “Green Arch” (2024) Hand recycled plastic waste, Steel, Nichrome, 54 x 32 x 4 inches. 2- Artist/Designer Simon Anton.

Simon Anton’s works are made using an experimental process of grafting waste plastic onto sculpted metal armatures by wrapping them in heating wire and submerging them in vats of locally sourced plastic waste. Over time the plastic grows onto the armatures, creating colorful 3D wall works - part painting, part sculpture, part architectural study. All works are in the vein of plastic material research which Anton has been engaging with since 2012. Anton’s works for the exhibition include a new collection of small studies and a larger wall sculpture that juxtapose plastic waste with the language of architectural ornamentation.

👉🏽 Link to full Press Release: https://www.materia-art.com/inside-outside

OPENING SEPT 14 ✨ Matéria Gallery is pleased to present Inside/Outside, a special exhibition of new works by Detroit-based designers Simon Anton and Bilge Nur Saltik, in conjunction with the Detroit Month of Design 🤎💫 The project takes place at Matéria’s EDITION space () in Detroit’s Core City neighborhood. Each artist/design studio will present a new collection of works as part of the exhibition.

IMAGES:
1- Bilge Nur Saltik, “The Essence Collection” (2024) 3D printed copper. 2- Detail. 3- Designer Bilge Nur Saltik

Bilge Nur Saltik’s studio practice spans across multiple design disciplines and mediums, reimagining timeless materials such as glass, ceramic, stone, wood, and fabric, and incorporating new technologies, to bring new objects to life. For Inside/Outside, Nur will be presenting The Essence Collection, an exploration of organic forms through the lens of parametric design. In this new body of work, the designer delves into the complexities of curvilinear surfaces, utilizing advanced parametric techniques to create intricate, fluid geometries. The material choice, 3D printed copper, is particularly compelling, as it embodies a deceptive quality that challenges the viewer’s perception of form and substance. Over time, the copper interacts with natural elements, evolving and changing, adding an additional layer of meaning to the work. The result is dynamic pieces that bridge the gap between digital fabrication and the organic processes of nature, inviting contemplation on the relationship between man-made structures and the natural world.

👉🏽 Link to full Press Release: https://www.materia-art.com/inside-outside

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An exciting studio visit with artist Mark Joshua Epstein at his new studio/home set in a beautiful renovated old church in downtown Chelsea, Michigan.

Epstein’s first solo exhibition in Detroit including shaped paintings and works on paper will open at Matéria on January 18, 2025.

MARK JOSHUA EPSTEIN

Mark Joshua Epstein received his MFA from the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London, UK, and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston, MA. Solo and two-person shows include Ortega y Gasset Projects’ Skirt Space (Brooklyn, NY), SPRING/BREAK Art Show (NY, NY), Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), NARS Foundation Project Space (Brooklyn, NY), Caustic Coastal (Salford, UK), Vane Gallery (Newcastle, UK), Demo Project (Springfield, IL), Biquini Wax Gallery (Mexico City), Breve (Mexico City), and Brian Morris Gallery (NY, NY). Selected group shows include the Nerman Museum (Overland Park, Kansas), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), Marquee Projects (Bellport, NY), TSA New York (Brooklyn, NY), Collar Works (Troy, NY), Good Children Gallery (New Orleans, LA), Monaco (St. Louis, MO), Beverly’s (NY, NY), and Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, IA). Epstein has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony, Jentel Foundation, Macdowell Colony, Saltonstall Foundation, I-Park and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, amongst others. His work has appeared in publications such as New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, Dovetail and Two Coats of Paint. He was a 2023 Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA.

⭐️MARK YOUR CALENDARS⭐️ Our exciting Fall Season Opening is Saturday, September 14, 5-7 pm:

➖In the Gallery:
Bianca Beck: See Me Plural
September 14 - October 24, 2024

➖In the EDITION Pop-Up:
Inside/Outside, Simon Anton and Bilge Nur Saltik
September 14 - September 28, 2024
In conjunction with the Detroit Month of Design.

➖Music performance in Core City Park 2, across the street from the gallery, and in conjunction with the Fall shows opening:
Performance by Battle Elf, Chris Peters, Dave Hurley and Gretchen Gonzales producing soundscapes of human experience.

Celebrating artist Kathryn Brackett-Luchs birthday month with a great studio visit this week💫✨✨
Swipe to see a few moments in the artist’s studio in Lewiston, Michigan 🌱

KATHRYN BRACKETT LUCHS
Born in Detroit Michigan, Kathryn Brackett Luchs moved to the Cultural Center in Detroit at an early age and began living, painting and filming experimental artists also creating in studios along what is called the Detroit Cass Corridor. Brackett Luchs received her MFA from the University of Michigan after developing a personal studio practice and being included in group shows. She was part of the group exhibition Kick Out the Jams: Detroit’s Cass Corridor 1963-1977 at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in 1980. The exhibition was after presented at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Brackett Luchs’ early works in painting were chosen to represent Michigan in 1986-87 in the Contemporary Arts Center Biennial that traveled to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio; Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indiana; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her continuing interest in studio experiments and development of large-scale hybrid works have received recognition and many awards that include The Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and The Ed Foundation Grant. Her knowledge, based in multiple studio approaches, has led to a rich teaching history at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design from 1992 through 2019.

☀️ Happy Summer!☀️

Matéria Gallery's Programming is Now All in One Location!

After a very exciting (and extra busy) transition year with programming in two locations, Matéria is pleased to announce that starting this September we will be concentrating all our energy at our new location in Detroit's Core City neighborhood.

In addition to our regular shows schedule, we have lots of exciting cultural programming coming up in the new location that we will be sharing more details about soon!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Fall Exhibitions Opening

Opening side by side on Saturday, September 14, 5-7 pm:

➖ In the Gallery:
Bianca Beck: "See Me Plural," September 14 - October 24, 2024.

➖ In the EDITION Pop-Up:
"Inside/Outside," Simon Anton and Bilge Nur Saltik, September 14 - September 28, 2024. In conjunction with the Detroit Month of Design.

➖ Music performance in Core City Park 2, across the street from the gallery, and in conjunction with the Fall shows opening:
Performance by Battle Elf, Chris Peters, Dave Hurley and Gretchen Gonzales producing soundscapes of human experience.

We hope to see you on Saturday, September 14, 5-7 pm, for this exciting launch of our Fall season!

And a reminder that the gallery will be closed from August 21 through September 2 for our end-of-summer break.

An in-depth insightful reflection on Brenda Goodman’s drawing practice by John Yau has just been published on Hyperallergic💫💫💫
Link to full essay: https://hyperallergic.com/940848/brenda-goodman-unknowable-language-of-grief/

Brenda Goodman’s Unknowable Language of Grief

The fluidity of the artist’s line parallels her thought process and openness to taking unexpected paths, often prompted by a memory or life event.
By John Yau, August 13, 2024

“Over the course of a seven-decade career, the one constant in Brenda Goodman’s practice has been drawing. The fluidity of her line parallels her thought process and openness to taking unexpected paths, often prompted by a memory or life event. In 2020, she told Clarity Haynes in a BOMB magazine interview that her work is about “pain and sadness,” adding that “everything I am at seventy-six years old is in the paintings, and even though they’re not gut-wrenching, they’re still me, and all my life experiences are in them.” Alongside, and sometimes in tandem with, her paintings, Goodman has made nuanced portraits of her pets as well as line drawings that are in conversation with Alfred Kubin’s macabre subjects.

Often small, these works continued to expand in the mind of this viewer long after seeing them. Paul Klee famously described his process as “taking a line for a walk.” In counterpoint to his statement of authorial control, I want to suggest that Goodman’s line takes her to places where trauma and healing, grief and comfort coexist. Looking at her graphic work — spanning from her years as a precocious student in Detroit in the 1960s to the present, when I recently visited her studio — it seemed obvious to me that a museum should devote an exhibition to her drawings, accompanied by a substantial publication.”

Matéria will be presenting an exciting solo show of drawings by the artist ranging from 1969 through 2008 at our new location in the fall of 2026.

*Reminder* TODAY, Saturday, Aug. 10, is the ☀️LAST DAY☀️ to see Sharon Que’s solo exhibition “Ice Cream Castle,” on view at Matéria’s Cass Corridor location.

IMAGE: Sharon Que, “Beacon” (2024) Steel, stone, paint, glass beads, 40 x 20 x 14 inches.

👉🏽Swipe for a detail of the work.

Matéria’s Cass Corridor location is open THU-SAT, 12-5 pm, and by appointment.

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Tomorrow, Saturday, August 10, is the last day to see Ian Swanson’s solo exhibition “Standards” 💚

An informal ☀️closing reception☀️ will take place this Saturday from 6-8 pm. Matéria Core City and the EDITION Pop-Up will be open 12-8 pm.

IMAGE: Ian Swanson, “Cavern of the Avatar” (2023) Acrylic, pigment, grommets, hardware on PVC, 52 x 116 inches.

Matéria Core City is open THU-SAT, 12-7 pm, and by appointment.

Sharon Que, “Ice Cream Castle” (2024) Black walnut, brass, ebony, 12 x 18.75 x 6.25 inches, is part of the sculptor’s solo exhibition of same title, on view at Matéria Cass Corridor through this Saturday, August 10! 🤎🧡🖤🤍

👉🏽Swipe for different views and details of the work.

Matéria’s Cass Corridor location is open THU-SAT, 12-5 pm, and by appointment.

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*LAST WEEK* to see Sharon Que’s solo exhibition “Ice Cream Castle”!

Matéria’s Cass Corridor location is open THU-SAT, 12-5 pm, and by appointment.

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*LAST WEEK* to see Ian Swanson’s solo exhibition “Standards”!

Matéria’s Core City location is open THU-SAT, 12-7 pm.

An informal closing at Matéria Core City will take place this Saturday, August 10, 6-8 ☀️💫

Ian Swanson, “Polestar” (2024) Acrylic, pigment, grommets, rivets, hardware on PVC, 52 x 40 inches, is part of the artist’s solo exhibition “Standards,” on view at the gallery’s Core City location through August 10 💙 Swipe for some details of the work.

Matéria Core City is open THU-SAT, 12- 7pm, and by appointment.

Matéria is pleased to present Standards, Ian Swanson’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and first in his hometown of Detroit since 2016. Standards brings together the artist’s latest cycle of large-scale monochrome paintings layered with dense textures and expressive mark-making after a period of increasingly subtractive approaches to his painterly application. Swanson’s relationship to the figure and ground continues to manifest in abstractions that ruminate on the confines of physical experience. His subjects are intimately woven into their environments, like v***r forming and then dissipating with time, each composition providing glimpses into a world of wandering silhouettes, momentarily suspended. Link in Bio to full Press Release and all images.

Sierra Aguilar’s new works, part of “Seritonal Studio Sessions” 💫 Now on view at the EDITION Pop-Up through Aug. 10.💫

IMAGES:

1- “Sand” (2024) Hand-pressed ink and oil monotype with hand-applied graphite, 35 x 27 x 1.5 inches (framed)

2- “Soil” (2024) Hand-pressed ink and oil monotype with hand-applied graphite, 35 x 27 x 1.5 inches (framed)

3- “Stone” (2024) Hand-pressed ink and oil monotype with hand-applied graphite, 35 x 27 x 1.5 inches (framed)

About SIERRA R. AGUILAR (b. 2001) is a multidisciplinary artist with lens and print based priorities. Living and working in Michigan, Aguilar received her Bachelors of Fine Arts inPhotography and Printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in the spring of 2023. She has had work exhibited in juried exhibitions across the United States across a multitude of mediums, most recently and notably with Decode Gallery in Tucson, Arizona and Midwest Nice in Aberdeen, South Dakota; as well as an abundance of experience in and around metro-Detroit. In addition to a daily artistic practice and facilitating the photographic education and outreach platform Lenscratch, Aguilar is in
the process of completing a Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Azusa Pacific University in order to create a more inclusive and approachable field.

Alissa Lamarre, installation view, as part of “Seritonal Studio Sessions” 💫 Now on view at the EDITION Pop-Up through Aug. 10 💫

IMAGE:

➖ Left: “8th portal drawing” (2023) Ink and graphite on paper, 15.25 x 12.25 x 1 inches (framed)

➖ Right: “POE lamp” (2024) Found glass, Cedar shavings, shop lamp, 15 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches (variable)

About ALISSA R. LAMARRE
Alissa Lamarre is a detail-oriented, interdisciplinary artist whose foundations reside in metalsmithing, drawing, and the exploration of material language, using her native Midwest’s physical and cultural landscape to explore manifestations of heritage and navigation. She received her BFA in Metals/Jewelry from Western Michigan University in 2009 and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2013. Over the past decade, Alissa has shown her work nationally and internationally, with exhibitions in Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York, Belgium, and the Netherlands; including solo and two-person exhibitions at Brooklyn Metalworks, (Brooklyn, NY.) Alissa currently lives, works, and collects in Detroit, MI.

The end of our summer programming is upon us, but there are new exciting works to see at the EDITION Pop-Up (next door to Matéria Core City) this weekend and next week! 🤎☀️💫

Now on view, “Serotinal Studio Sessions” a special installation of new works by Alissa Lamarre and Sierra Aguilar.

A few works from our previous Fiber 2024 project are also on view in the space.

☀️ EDITION Pop-Up hours: THU-SAT, 12-7 pm.

☀️ Closing party: Saturday, August 10, 6-8 pm.












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Installation views of Ian Swanson’s solo exhibition “Standards.” on view through August 10 💙💜🤎

Matéria’s Core City location is open THU-SAT, 12-7 pm, and by appointment.

Matéria is pleased to present Standards, Ian Swanson’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and first in his hometown of Detroit since 2016. Standards brings together the artist’s latest cycle of large-scale monochrome paintings layered with dense textures and expressive mark-making after a period of increasingly subtractive approaches to his painterly application. Swanson’s relationship to the figure and ground continues to manifest in abstractions that ruminate on the confines of physical experience. His subjects are intimately woven into their environments, like v***r forming and then dissipating with time, each composition providing glimpses into a world of wandering silhouettes, momentarily suspended.

Link to full Press Release and all images: https://www.materia-art.com/ian-swanson-standards

Thank you to All who joined us this afternoon for a lunch-time gallery conversation with artist Sharon Que ❤️

Que’s solo exhibition “Ice Cream Castle” is on view at Matéria’s Cass Corridor location through August 10!

Matéria’s Cass Corridor location is open THU-SAT, 12-5 pm, and by appointment.

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➖Reminder➖ This Wednesday, July 31, 12-1 pm, at Matéria Cass Corridor, join artist Sharon Que for an informal conversation about her practice and the works included in her solo exhibition “Ice Cream Castle” 💫

ABOUT Sharon Que
Born Sharon Querciagrossa in Detroit, Michigan, Sharon Que has resided and worked in the Detroit area throughout her career. With much of her and her family’s history rooted in the automotive industry, many of her works combine traditional and industrial materials. Que received a BFA from the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Sharon Que’s works are part of the permanent collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts, as well as the public sculpture on the campus of Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, and General Motor’s new Design West Building. Her works have been exhibited in Venice, Italy, San Francisco, and Chicago, as well as extensively in the metro Detroit area.

👉🏽Link to exhibition press release and images: https://www.materia-art.com/que-ice-cream-castle

Matéria’s Cass Corridor location is open THU-SAT, 12-5 pm, and by appointment.

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