Aaron Kent will open his exhibition Stain & Relics on April 17, 2026, in a collaboration between the Fine Arts Ceramic Center and Annex Gallery. The show brings together a body of work developed over years of material investigation, where ceramics, printmaking, and hybrid processes intersect without submitting to stable disciplinary boundaries.
His practice is grounded in direct engagement with matter. Bones, eroded surfaces, and residues of thermal and chemical processes function as carriers of memory. Layers of experience settle into these materials, turning each object into a physical record of what has been lived. Kent’s work does not pursue purity of medium or flawless resolution; it holds onto transformation as evidence—cracks, stains, fractures, and marks that register what has taken place.
This approach is closely tied to his personal trajectory. Experiences of loss, exposure to contexts of social crisis, and his relationship to ceramics as a practice once shared with his mother shape a body of work in which material and affect operate on the same plane. Each piece retains a singular, irreducible condition, even when it approaches formats traditionally associated with repetition, such as printmaking.
Stain & Relics offers the community an opportunity to engage with a practice of notable emotional density and procedural rigor. The exhibition reinforces MoCA Américas’ commitment to work that expands the field of contemporary art through a sustained engagement with matter, time, and lived experience.
