Material Memory is a two-person exhibition featuring Julian Brown and Randall Reid, whose practices explore how memory, history, and transformation become embedded within material and surface.
Brown’s paintings and works on paper draw from Polish folk art, personal memory, and inherited visual traditions. Through layered abstractions rich in color, texture, and movement, he incorporates monoprinted forms, woven patterns, and recurring motifs that evoke both childhood recollection and cultural heritage. Balancing playfulness with nostalgia, his works create immersive environments where memory is experienced through color, rhythm, and form.
Working with reclaimed wood, steel, and salvaged industrial materials, Reid constructs layered abstractions marked by traces of use, erosion, and repair. His compositions draw on fragmented landscapes, architectural remnants, and cycles of decay and renewal, transforming discarded materials into repositories of memory. Together, Brown and Reid reveal material as both medium and witness, carrying the accumulated imprint of time, place, and lived experience.
