April 26 - May 24, 2025
From MASS Gallery:
“Porous Matters creates an environment of living art in conversation with the landscape of Austin, refocusing and reinforcing our emotional reliance on nature. This exhibition presents artwork produced in an age of extreme drought: a topic inevitably confronted by artists working with nature in Central Texas. Welcoming exploration of organic and “immaterial” elements—sound, smell, light, text—Porous Matters posits these as inherently social works that prompt communal experience, offering radiant entry points into new relationships between environment and humanity.
As the urgency of drought and severe weather becomes less abstract and more tangible, these works borrow the language of porosity that defines the Edwards Aquifer to encourage a deeper public relationship with this essential indicator of our health and future in Austin.
Participating Artists
Emily Lee is an artist, writer, and community organizer from the Texas Gulf Coast. Through their practice, Lee observes how meaning and value are unconsciously reified in objects, social dynamics, and the built environment.
https://leeemily.com
@emilyelisabethlee
Miles Matis-Uzzo is a Texas-based artist and superorganism who communicates through sculpture, poetry, video, perfume, performance, and installation. With these mediums, they excavate the products of gendered power structures, queer ecology, and the ritualistic distancing of our diminishing ecosystem.
https://matisuzzo.com
@e3arthstar
Diego Miró-Rivera’s work is focused on site-specificity, the natural world, how humans relate through the manipulation of space. Some of his works are of immense scale, snow or grass tracks of several kilometers, others fit in the palm of a hand.
https://diegomirorivera.com
@gogomiro
Anika Todd is a sculptor/media artist who investigates the human impulse to own and control; their works critique the cultural assumptions and legislative frameworks that legitimize private ownership of earth and sky.
https://anikatodd.com
@anikatodd
Hannah Spector is an interdisciplinary visual artist, poet, and educator. Spector thinks of language as a solid object—a concrete and spatial expression that can overturn limiting perceptions of the everyday.
https://hannahspector.com
Anahita (Ani) Bradberry is an artist and writer creating sculptural situations with plasma light. As organic bodies and minimal geometries, her practice is an exercise in life-forming: filling tubular vessels with pulsing plasma—the luminous fourth state of matter—and arranging the ethereal light in conversation with its surroundings. Each object is simultaneously a multidimensional line and an atmospheric field.
https://anibradberry.com
@ani.data
About MASS Gallery
Founded in 2006, MASS Gallery is an artist-run, experimental gallery space on the east side of Austin, Texas. Dedicated to amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ artists, artists of color, and local creatives, MASS Gallery cultivates an inclusive environment where artists and audiences can engage with contemporary issues and express themselves authentically.”
Reception: April 26, 2025 | 7–9 pm
705 Gunter Street
Austin, 78702 TX
(512) 470-9453
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