Upcoming Gallery Exhibition:

Material Attention

In Material Attention, Lucy Holtsnider and Nora Schuchat highlight their work with their hands; stitching thread through paper, printing and cutting gradients, arranging ceramic and wood, what happens when you stay with a material long enough to really understand it. Their pieces come from repetitive, meditative processes: layering, pairing, building up forms that shift between geometric precision and organic flow. Schuchat pairs strong thread with delicate paper to explore contradictions—tension and ease, perfection and mess—that mirror the emotional complexity of motherhood, stitching a single color of thread in different directions to make light itself into a physical material. Holtsnider starts outdoors observing color and light, then translates those experiences into monotype prints on a letterpress that she methodically cuts and combines with ceramic and wood, pushing back against the speed of digital culture through hands-on trial and error. Both artists find meaning in the imperfect, irreplicable trace of human presence—in work that takes time, care, and sustained material attention, asking viewers to look slowly with the same patience they bring to making.

On view in the gallery through 04/19/26. Gallery hours are M-F, 10AM-4PM (ring the doorbell!), and by appointment with the owner.

Syzygy is the precise alignment of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system. Together they form a constellation. Individually, they are particles, astrological dust, the seed of what could be, fragments of a larger whole. This body of work began as excavation. Where LaBauve’s practice has long been additive, these sculptures were carved from solid blocks of clay, material slowly removed through intuitive, repeated interaction. The subtraction became its own bodily language. What emerged were voids: openings, passages, spaces where light enters the dark and dark enters the light. Raw, intimate, still arriving.

Some of these sculptures were divided and rejoined, concealing their own interior history. Others remain as two, born from the same block, separated in the making. The connection between them is invisible but present, sensed rather than seen. In both cases, they started as one.

Syzygy is a collection of small sculptures, presented together as a single work and available to collect in sets. It is a teaser — a first encounter with work that will expand into a larger in-person exhibition this summer. Consider it an invitation to look closely, to choose a few pieces to carry home, and to return.