SOIL Artist-Run Gallery

‘Crystalline Lens’
January 23 - February 28, 2026
Opening Reception: February 5, 5-8 pm
Hours: Friday - Sunday 11am - 4PM

‘Electric Jelly’ (detail) Meagan Smith
‘There Is Sanity at Sea Level’ (detail) Christopher Squier
‘Lipidity’ (detail) Allyce Wood 

‘Crystalline Lens’ references the focusing lens of the eye, a mystical quality, a glass parabola, or a clear viewpoint. Artists Meagan Smith, Christopher Squier, and Allyce Wood use the term as a guide, creating an exhibition of artworks that utilize glitches, patterns, and shifting perceptions to explore the ethereal qualities of liquidity and expansion.

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In the Backspace

One step forward, two steps back
Tania Colette B.

Exhibition Dates: January 23rd, 2026 - February 28th, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 5th, 5pm-8pm

One step forward, two steps back is a solo exhibition of new works by Seattle-based artist Tania Colette B. Drawing from her “life-size” sculpture practice, which explores the material life of social movements and state power, the exhibition examines the isolated choreographies embedded within collective operations both of and against state violence. 

Tania Colette B. is an artist based in Seattle. Her work explores the sculptural byproducts of political capitalism and state power. With sculpture, installation, found photography/video, and a broad range of other media, she re-stages sites of social resistance, economic failure, and environmental exploitation in order to examine them from a material vantage point. Her current projects center on tactics of “sculptural resistance”: barriers and monuments built by protestors in order to circumvent, resist, and critique state violence. She holds an MA in Culture Industry from Goldsmiths, University of London (2020) and a BFA in Sculpture from California College of the Arts (2014). She is a member of SOIL and Specialist in Seattle. 

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Image details:
Reference photo for Underturn from Harper’s Encyclopedia of Science, ed. 1964

Underturn
Bricks, water, acrylic, plywood
20” x 12” x 48”
2026

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