Dust Divine

Charles Adam Studio Project 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
August 19 – September 29, 2025

In Dust Divine, Terry Maker returns to her Texas roots with a powerful new solo exhibition at 5&J Gallery. Part of her ongoing Drawn from Dust series, the work continues Maker’s decades-long excavation of meaning through material — transforming discarded remnants of modern life into sculptural meditations on the sacred, the broken, and the resurrected.

Known for her rigorous process of compressing, slicing, and revealing, Maker treats materials like shredded documents, paper scraps, and even astrophysics texts as relics — embedding them in resin and cutting into them with surgical precision. What emerges are vibrant, layered works that explore the interplay between the physical and the metaphysical. Circular forms, fractured and reconstituted, speak to Maker’s spiritual practice, referencing both divine wholeness and earthly imperfection.

Her companion rubbings on Evolon paper — created by drawing directly from the surface of her sculptural works — offer what the artist calls “progeny,” visual records of contact, memory, and transformation. These works extend the metaphor of dust and divinity, suggesting the quiet power of what lies beneath the surface.

From crystal ball-like portals to vast, cosmically inspired reliefs, Dust Divine affirms Maker’s belief that even the most discarded materials can hold mystery, wonder, and grace — if we’re willing to dig deep enough.