Square One Gallery is pleased to present “Material Instinct,” a group exhibition featuring Dylan Martinez, Carrie Gillen, Eric Moore, Hayley Sheldon, Cameron Richter, and Alexandra Squire. Bringing together painting, sculpture, glass, textiles, carved surfaces, woven elements, and light, the exhibition considers what happens when an artist’s ideas encounter the physical behavior of a material. Glass refracts and distorts, fabric stretches and gathers, woven surfaces filter light, and carved forms build depth through repetition.
Throughout the exhibition, weight, tension, transparency, texture, and resistance actively shape how each work develops. Here, instinct is not the opposite of intention, but the fluency that comes from sustained familiarity with a medium: knowing when to direct it, when to respond, and when to allow its natural properties to lead. Together, the works reveal six distinct ways of thinking through making, each arriving at something that could not have been fully determined in advance.
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