Southampton - Southampton Cultural Center's Fall Exhibition "Material Matters" will be on exhibit through November 20, 2011.

Ther focal point of the exhibition is material and how it inspires and informs the artist's work. The material, whether created or re-formed is crucial to the artist's aesthetic and becomes a dominant aspect of the art. Dimensional qualities are prominent to different degrees.

Among the sculptors, James DeMartis forges iron into abstract works; Don Saco welds sheet metal strips to create figures in various attitudes; Eric Ernst, also a painter, applies painted forms to free-standing slabs of lucite, with one carved and painted wall piece. Margaret Kerr, known for her Brick Rugs based on Medieval design, has created a screen with imagery drawn with brick dust, and small brick wall works. James Gemake takes found objects to form wall pieces in dimensional assemblage and collage, often with political and philosophical titles. Robert Skinner takes singular objects, primarily old tools, and mounts them on large panels of weathered wood as wall installations.

The late painter, printmaker, sculptor, Arnold Hoffmann, Jr. is represented by two small balsa wood constructions created in the 1960s.

The painter and printmaker, Carol Hunt has turned to weaving in the past few years. She is showing a series of works woven in various materials: wool, silk, feathers.

Gabriele Raacke paints narrative works using acrylic on glass, working in reverse to create the images.

Alexander Russo is showing a selection of early works in which strips of canvas, rope, and sand form the imagery: a combination of figuration and abstract elements from nature.

Roseann Schwab is represented by a group of small collages using painted, cut, and torn papers.