January 23 – February 20, 2026
Exhibition Reception February 5, 2026, from 5pm - 8pm 

Meagan Smith, Christopher Squier, and Allyce Wood are visual artists hailing from the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest, respectively, who connected over their shared experiences making artwork in Norway. Each spent time in Scandinavia weaving, drawing, and composing textile works, using digital technologies and their own hands to create rippling visual expressions.

“Crystalline lens,” a term used to describe the focusing lens of the eye, also references a mystical quality, a glass parabola, or a clear viewpoint. The artists use the term as a guide, compiling artworks made under the influence of the coastal landscape of the fjordlands—glitches, patterns, and shifting perceptions give way to an ethereal quality of liquidity and expansion. 

The labor and repetition each artist embodies function as a visual mediation as each object is being made. Each work expands outwards, building upon itself as the piece is constructed pencil line by pencil line, thread by thread, intricacies macrotizing into something complete and ethereal.

Smith, Squier, and Wood met on residencies and are presenting work collectively for the first time. Through their exhibition at SOIL, they intend to connect viewers in the gallery to a larger coastal context of vision and atmosphere, activating their senses in Seattle’s context of mists, undulating water, and sea air.