Artists’ material differences on display in group show

The stuff of art — be it altered books, cut paper, found photographs, cast lead crystal or video — is pulled to the foreground in Seager Gray Gallery’s group show “Material Matters.”

The loose theme of the third annual exhibit that looks at artists and their favored materials is generous enough to encompass a variety of work, from Jane Rosen’s patinaed bronze hoof sculptures to Joe Brubaker’s wood tribute to Louise Nevelson.

Barbara Wildenboer of Cape Town, South Africa, shreds pages into explosive tendrils for her sculpture “Proteus Turning Into Water,” whereas the Tucson-bred Andrew Hayes juxtaposes a volume’s swoosh with raw steel in “Rest.”