Therese Regalado’s first solo exhibition, Material Research, looks into the coming together of materials, textures, and forms through persistent inquiry and curiosity. Her workflow is spurred by puzzle – solving, like piecing together a game without fixed mechanics which Regalado then opens up to allow for reorientation. These objects, she says, really are built through magic: for her, the maker, a belief in the life and energy of materials and for us, the user, a conviction in our interest and intelligence. In many ways these assembled things convey experiments in faith.