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 3/14/2026 through 4/19/2026

Gem Series I
Gem Series 2
Gem Series 3
Gem Series 4
Gem Series 5
Gem Series 6
Gem Series 7
Gem Series 8
Gem Series 9
Gem Series 10
Gem Series 11
Gem Series 12
Gem Series 13
Gem Series 14
Gem Series 15
Gem Series 16
Gem Series 17
Gem Series 18
Gem Series 19
Gem Series 20
Gem Series 21
Little Moon Series 1
Little Moon Series 2
Little Moon Series 3
Little Moon Series 4
Indigo Form with Marbled Blue Ceramic Tile
Light Blue Form with Marbled Pink Ceramic Tiles
Pink Form I
Yellow and Ochre Forms I
Yellow and Ochre Form on Blue I
Pink Forms on Blue I
Blue Forms on Red I
Red Forms on Blue I
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