Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination

Eight artists at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, working in materials pre-loaded with belief — mud and masa, unglazed devotional clay, crushed velvet, rose quartz. Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, vanessa german, April Bey, Joel Gaitan, Jackie Amézquita. The strongest works refuse the curatorial thesis, which is the tell that the material is doing the thinking.