09/08/2026
Join us this Friday, September 11 for the opening of Material Sentiments, a duo exhibition by Jess Machacek and James Enos.
Material Sentiments explores the emotional and sensory associations embedded within the built environment. Drawing from architectural details, surface patterns, and overlooked fragments encountered in daily life and while wandering, the work shifts between photography and dimensional constructions that abstract familiar forms through shape, color, texture, and repetition. Materials and images become records of place– inviting attention to the small details that shape how we experience, remember, and form attachments to the places we encounter and move through.
Jess Machacek Jess Machacek is a curator at ArtLifting ArtLifting. Her work explores the space between the natural and the constructed, using familiar materials drawn from domestic, commercial, and suburban environments to blur the boundaries between landscape, architecture, and everyday life. Her practice considers how ideas of beauty, leisure, and nature are manufactured, revealing the nostalgia and artifice woven into our everyday surroundings.
James Enos is a Professor and Director of the School of Art at TCU. His practice includes walking, fieldwork, and collaborative projects that examine how people experience and shape the places they inhabit. His work focuses on infrastructure, energy, and ports, as well as the multiple social, cultural, and environmental meanings they hold.
