Remnant / Revelation

In this solo exhibition, assemblage sculptor Mary Pat Wager presents a body of steel sculptures and wall pieces constructed from industrial, agrarian, and vintage materials — objects sourced from junkyards, estates, and the quiet edges of a century that built everything…and preserved almost nothing. Through welding, deconstruction, and reconstruction, Wager forces these remnants into new configurations, new conversations, and new meaning.

The work does not mourn what was discarded. It interrogates it. Each piece asks what we chose to throw away — and what that choice reveals about us.

In Wager’s hands, a remnant is never only what it was. It becomes a record. A relic. A mirror held up to a culture in the act of forgetting itself. The revelation is not in the transformation of the material — it is in what the material was already trying to say.

Remnant / Revelation invites the viewer to reconsider the boundary between waste and witness, between the end of one story and the beginning of another.

Bio

Mary Pat Wager is a sculptor whose work transforms found and salvaged materials — metal, wood, clay and the accumulated objects of ordinary life — into three-dimensional forms charged with memory, history, and meaning. Working primarily through assemblage, welding, casting and fabrication, she creates sculpture that collapses the distance between past and present, asking viewers to reckon with what objects carry and what they leave behind.

Wager’s work is held in numerous public and private collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally across more than four decades of sustained practice. Corporate collections include Blue Cross/Blue Shield, General Electric, Key Bank, McDonald’s Corporation, Omni Corporation, and Phoenix Life Insurance. Her work is also held in permanent collections at Castle Breitenbach Sculpture Park, the Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University, the Schenectady Museum, and the State University of New York at Albany.

Artist’s Reception
Saturday, July 11th
4:00 – 6:00 PM

This program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.