Materiality
November 4, 2025 – February 24, 2026
Materiality, a group show featuring: Neil Anderson (1933-2021), Ray Beldner, Tim McFarlane, Sarah Helen More, Rebecca Rutstein, Dina Wind (1938-2014) & Jason Woodside.
November 4 – February 21, 2026
Artist Reception & Happy Hour: Friday, November 14th, 5:00 – 7:30pm
Bridgette Mayer Gallery is thrilled to announce Materiality a group exhibition featuring Neil Anderson (1933-2021), Ray Beldner, Tim McFarlane, Sarah Helen More, Rebecca Rutstein, Dina Wind (1938-2014) & Jason Woodside.
Ma-te-ri-al-ity. (noun) The quality or character of being material or composed of matter. Law: The quality of being relevant or significant.
Materiality features paintings, mixed media works and sculpture that highlight each featured artist’s interest in utilizing additional materials outside of paint and canvas to explore their creative practice and studio work. Looking at the exploration of ideas through steel, fabric, wood, mosaic, paper, aluminum and canvas accentuates each artists intention and underlying ideas in the works themselves.
Materiality will be on view from Tuesday, November 4 to Saturday, February 21, 2026 at Bridgette Mayer Gallery. On Friday, November 14th the gallery will host an artist reception & happy hour from 5:00 to 7:30pm in celebration the exhibition. This event is free and open to the public.
In discussing the curated artists and works for the exhibition, Gallery Director Bridgette Mayer shares:
“I have an interest in artmaking in all material forms. My gallery program highlights artists that come at their practice primarily as abstract painters but have expanded their repertoire over many years to include flat and 3-D sculptures. I am excited to share the dialogue between each artists’ chosen materials in their artmaking as well as explore the overlap and contrast with these artists in the entirety of the show.”
Read the full press release here.
Artists
Rebecca Rutstein
Rebecca Rutstein is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice bridges art and science. For over twenty years she has created painting, sculpture, interactive installation and public art inspired by the natural world. Her environmentally-focused work sheds light on places and processes hidden from view to foster deeper connection in the face of our climate crisis. As…
Tim McFarlane
Tim McFarlane is a painter based in Philadelphia, PA. His abstract paintings and works on paper examine the fluid and contradictory nature of memory and place as informed by time, with an emphasis on color, multi-layered systems and process. McFarlane’s observations of the visual impact of human activity and his everyday engagement with man-made and…
Jason Woodside
Jason Woodside is a visual artist specializing in painting with acrylics and aerosols. Currently living in New Zealand for family and lifestyle, Woodside began his career in New York City, attending the School of Visual Arts in the early 2000’s. His work is characterized by vivid colors and fades with contrasting bands of patterns and…
Sarah Helen More
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Sarah Helen More was raised in Portland, Oregon and Houston, Texas. She grew up surrounded by her mother’s handmade quilts and her father’s large collection of rocks and minerals, both facets of her upbringing that have greatly influenced her work. She holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and…
Ray Beldner
Ray Beldner is a mixed media artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and can be found in many public and private collections including the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California, the San Jose Museum of Art, the di Rosa Preserve in Napa,…
Neil Anderson
Neil Anderson was a contemporary painter heavily inspired by the natural landscape surrounding his studio in rural central Pennsylvania. He described his work as non-representational rather than abstract and explained that after the initial drawing, the emerging colors, textures and shapes are all improvised. The meaning of the painting arises from the unexpected occurrences of…