Pen + Brush is excited to announce the opening of our spring exhibitions, The NOW: Materiality and In the House 4. The Now: Materiality is the fifth iteration of our NOW exhibitions—an ongoing series spotlighting artists who are shaping the visual and conceptual language of our time. These artists are the ones to watch—whose work pulses with urgency, insight, and consideration.

The NOW: Materiality brings together three artists:  Anindita Dutta, Iliana Emilia Garcia, Alida Wilkinson who are working through materials—treating the contents of form, medium, and process as sites of inquiry, voice, story, resistance, and return.  Here, materials are not passive tools but active collaborators in the process of making. The simplicity of clay, the human body, and the readymade chair—each elemental in form and also, deeply familiar—offers a universal language.  Stripped of excess, these materials and symbols carry weight beyond their surface, inviting reflection on memory, presence, and transformation.…