Material Matters is a re-examination of a theme presented in the gallery’s 2013 exhibition, Materials Matter.  Once again, we wanted to create a presentation that spotlights the interaction of artists with their materials and how the materials themselves are an essential part of the content of the work.  Indeed, whether the medium is painting (Charles Eckart), printmaking (Kazuko Watanabe), weaving/photography (Lia Cook), cast or blown glass (Jane Rosen, Ann Hollingsworth), stone (Alexander Rohrig), wood (Joe Brubaker, Gyöngy Laky, Patricia Lyons Stroud), clay (Richard Shaw), video and glass (Tim Tate), mixed media (David Ruddell, Stephen Paul Day, Helen Stanley), or books and thread (Lisa Kokin), often the focused interchange with the materials themselves allows the artist to arrive at new expressions, increasing their visual vocabulary and thus their communication with the world.