Current 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.