Sacred Wounds: Modern Light

This exhibition brings together contemporary sculptors who challenge the stability of materials long associated with permanence—stone, glass, and fired clay. Through acts of carving, fracturing, layering, and illumination, these works transform damage into structure and disruption into meaning.

 Across the exhibition, the “wound” takes multiple forms: physical incision in stone, accumulated imagery within glass, and luminous inscription in space. Artists such as Barry Ball and Adam Parker Smith rework classical materials to reveal tension between solidity and vulnerability. In the layered glass works of Dustin Yellin and Samson Low, light becomes dense—held and refracted rather than simply transmitted.

 In contrast, the sculptural neon works of Carl Hopgood use light itself as material—drawn into space as line, form, and structure. Here, illumination is not revealed but constructed.

 The fractured surfaces of Glen Martin Taylor make rupture explicit, emphasizing that breakage can be both destructive and generative. Together, these works suggest that what endures is not the unbroken form, but the capacity of materials—and of objects—to be transformed, reconfigured, and made newly resonant.