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Rachel Dove is thrilled to announce her upcoming two-person exhibition, Material Systems, featuring recent work by Dan Munkus and Dove at the BAU Gallery in Beacon, NY.
Saturday, February 14, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
BAU Gallery: 506 Main Street, Beacon, NYExhibition Details:
Dates: February 14 – March 8, 2026
Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM, and by appointment
Link: https://www.baugallery.org/
Gallery Two Rachel Dove and Dan Munkus: Material Systems
This two-person exhibition examines the utility, impact, and aesthetics of often-unseen external and inner systems. Dove, a ceramic artist, is drawn to the hidden structures that operate just beyond perception, like seawalls restraining tides and ventilation shafts breathing beneath our feet. Her work, both resilient and fragile, prompts reflection on what protects and sustains us. Munkus, primarily a painter, uses abstraction to distill and analyze inner emotional and psychological systems, creating a material inquiry about the nature of self-reimagining. His work encourages contemplation and a non-mechanized perspective of time. BAU awarded Dove and Munkus this show based on their work in the gallery’s August 2025 Open Call Annual.
Dove’s new collection brings together wood-fired ceramic sculptures from 2025, and electric-fired works produced in my home studio. The contrast between these firing methods and material exploration generates a quiet tension within the work, opening a layered dialogue about time, process and how unseen structures endure; both within the landscape and the imagination.