Exhibit Dates: 11 July – 31 August, 2025
Opening Reception: 11 July, 5 – 8 PM
Artist Talk: 22 July, 5 – 8 PM
Coding Democracy Weaving (With Heather and Steven): Every Wednesday, 3 – 5 PM in McMahon Gallery until end of August
Matter Over Mind is an exhibition that explores multidisciplinary innovation, boundary-pushing research, and the brilliant, experimental space where art and science collide. Learn how creative practices are redefining our relationship with the physical world — using matter as a tool to rethink, reimagine, and reshape how we live, learn, and create.
The exhibition brings together a vibrant community of radical thinkers and hands-on makers — artists who are also researchers, inventors, teachers, and students. Many of the exhibiting artists are affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder and its ATLAS Institute, an interdisciplinary hub for creativity and invention, where bold ideas come to life through hands-on experimentation, collaboration, and critical inquiry.
From the ATLAS Institute’s Emergent Nanomaterials Lab — where Joshua Coffie, Meenaksi Skandarajan, Caitlin Rogers, and Alexandra Felderman develop smart tattoo inks for the human body — to Netta Ofer’s slime mold experiments exploring nonhuman intelligence, to Ana González Barragán’s transformation of discarded Colorado quarry stone into poetic interventions, each artist pushes material to its edge and invites us to think differently.
Rather than “mind over matter“, this exhibition proposes the reverse: Matter Over Mind — a celebration of those who think unconventionally, experiment boldly, and let the material world lead the way toward new possibilities.
Artists: ATLAS Institute’s Emergent Nanomaterials Lab (Joshua Coffie, Meenakshi Skandarajan, Caitlin Rogers, and Alexandra Felderman), Ana González Baragan, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Belgin Yucelen, Carson Besser, Heather Schulte, Netta Ofer, Steven Frost
