Echoes in Matter

January - February 2025

Center for Emerging Visual Artists

Visiting Curator, Taylor Bythewood-Porter

Artist Reception February 6, 5-7 PM at CFEVA (237 S 18th St. #3a)

Echoes in Matter delves into the intricate relationship between memory and material, exploring how objects, textures, and substances become vessels of collective and personal histories. Featuring works by artists Molly Burt-Westvig, Alethea Canlas, Shefon N. Taylor, and Chad Cortez Everett whose reflections on time, identity, and heritage are expressed through material. Echoes in Matter invites viewers to reconsider the physical world as a repository of memory. Through sculptures, textiles, multimedia installations, and photography, the exhibition highlights how materials evoke the intangible, the persistence of cultural memory, and the deeply personal stories etched into the objects we hold dear. The featured works challenge traditional notions of permanence and decay, asking how we remember and what we choose to preserve in a rapidly changing world. Together, these works remind us that memory is not static; it is alive, mutable, and embedded in the physical fabric of our lives

The Visiting Curator Program allows artists from our region to connect with a curator who is not yet familiar with our artist community. CFEVA is proud to create more exposure for the artists we serve and provide beneficial new leads for noteworthy curators.