Transformations examines the use of diverse materials in art and the many ways artists reshape and reimagine a single material within their practices. The Spring 2026 exhibition at browngrotta arts, Transformations: Dialogues in Art and Material, takes a deep dive into materiality itself. It highlights the wide range of materials artists employ—including clay, silk, steel, bark, seaweed, bamboo, and horsehair—and the remarkable transformations these materials undergo in their skilled hands, even among artists working with the same medium.

The works in Transformations bridge the conceptual and the corporeal, inviting viewers to consider materials not as passive components, but as active agents with histories, limitations, and voices of their own. All of the international artists included exemplify what curator and historian Glenn Adamson defines as material intelligence: “a deep understanding of the material world around us, an ability to read that material environment, and the know-how required to give it new form.”

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