Exhibition Opening: “Boundary Layer” by Kate Rusek

Influenced by complex organic architectures, man-made environmental catastrophes, and eco-social systems, MFTA Artist-in-Residence Kate Rusek assembles highly tactile sculptures, textiles, and installations with an emphasis on craft and materiality. Her work transmutes waste matter into abundant, maximalist, composite forms and dynamic biophilic textures that interrogate assigned value, material narrative, and a rigid binary of what is ‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’. Their work examines the interconnected —at times contradictory— relationship between humanity, material culture, and the natural world. Now, the artist has created a new assemblage of sculptural works titled “Boundary Layer” for her residency at Materials for the Arts.

Rusek’s “Boundary Layer” will formally open at the Materials for the Arts gallery on Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.