09/10/2026
Art-in-Buildings is pleased to present an exhibition by Heidi Norton: Lucent Matter, on view at 125 Maiden Lane. Please join us Wednesday, September 16th from 5:30-7:30pm for a public reception and celebration! 🥂
Lucent Matter brings together works from across Heidi Norton’s career to examine preservation, transformation, and ecological time. Informed by her upbringing as the child of New Age homesteaders in West Virginia, Norton’s practice is rooted in a sustained engagement with land, plant life, and the instability of memory. Organic matter, photographic fragments, and studio detritus are pressed, embedded, cast, and layered within glass, wax, resin, polymer, pigment, and paint. Across these works, materials continually shift roles: glass becomes photographic, resin recalls sap or amber, wax suggests sediment and geological strata, and paintings take on the appearance of translucent objects. Referencing scientific specimens, microscope slides, and systems of display, Norton considers the paradox of preservation—the ways an attempt to protect or contain something also alters it, transforming living matter into image, object, or artifact.
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Image Credit: Ethan Browning.
Heidi Norton
tessarrific
Time Equities