
“The Potential of Objects”
Art is often the first way that we as a society grapple with collective trauma, and the events of the past few years have provided much fodder for taking on isolation, illness, death, racial injustice, and war. Eschewing the didactic, “The Potential of Objects” is refreshing in its foregrounding of a return to materiality as a means of engaging with larger social issues. After two years behind computer screens, we cannot underestimate the visceral power of experiencing sculpture in all its three-dimensional glory. The exhibition brings together eleven artists with ties to the Bay Area in an