As the title of the show implies, the March exhibition at Seager Gray Gallery has as its focus, materials – glass, wood, thread, buttons, clay, steel, books, paper. We are interested in how artists interact with and master their materials and how the materials themselves matter as an essential part of the content of the work. As we have grown as a gallery, we find that we are drawn to works in which artists use their medium as a means of communication. Like all galleries, as we became more established, our own direction began to define itself attracting artists of like mind. Certainly our focus on book-related works gave us a broader understanding of how a harmonic chord can be struck when form and content are in perfect harmony. That aesthetic understanding began to extend itself more broadly to all works of art and we had a clear purpose in putting together this March exhibition.