Left: Intro Beat 01 Outro, Hyland Mather, acrylic, aerosol, string, pins, on canvas, 40x40 inches, 2022
Right: I II, Shaun Kardinal, woven paper ephemera and artist's tape, 84x72 inches, 2017–2025

Hyland Mather & Shaun Kardinal: Form / Field
a two-person exhibition
June 5 – June 28, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, June 5 • 6PM - 8PM
RSVP here*
*appreciated but not required

Paradigm Gallery + Studio is pleased to present Form / Field, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Hyland Mather and Shaun Kardinal. This exhibition presents work from two distinct practices that converge through a shared sensitivity to line, structure, and process. Mather and Kardinal each explore how form emerges through accumulation, repetition, and material response, approaches that move between precision and drift, construction and discovery. 

For his third major presentation with Paradigm Gallery, Mather will present works from several ongoing series, including Linea Pictura paintings, suspended “gravity works” (Onus Suspenda), and sculptural and assemblage-based works such as Modus Volito and Novus Inventa. Spanning painting, sculpture, and installation, the work explores line, structure, and found materials through processes of gathering, repetition, and thoughtful intervention. Across these works, line operates as both drawing and structure, with string extending into space, holding weight, or tracing paths across painted surfaces, allowing form to emerge through tension, balance, and material response.

In his debut Paradigm collection, Kardinal will be presenting his woven paper quilts created from cut and punctured ephemera, along with a series of embroidered book pages and painted postcards, creating new forms from the smallest gestures. Kardinal’s work builds from repeating parts, embroidered marks, and modular systems that gather into larger compositions. These works often embrace landscape at a distance, horizons, city grids, or atmospheric depth, while remaining grounded in pattern and accumulation. Form, in this context, is built incrementally from repeated elements. In both practices, thread-like fiber elements and linear systems act as connective tissue, binding parts into larger wholes, or tracing form across space and surface. The “field” operates here as both a physical and conceptual space: a landscape, a surface of construction, and an invisible network of forces. Across both practices, it is within this field that form takes shape, held in a state of partnership between control and chance, repetition and variation, presence and possibility. Form / Field will be on view at Paradigm Gallery + Studio (12 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from June 5th through June 28, 2026, with a public opening reception on Friday, June 5, 2026 during Old City’s First Fridays.

Site-Specific ‘Onus Suspenda’ Gravity Works by Hyland Mather will be created on-site at Paradigm

About Hyland Mather
Hyland Mather is an American artist working across assemblage, abstraction, and installation. Raised in Alaska, he now lives and works between Amsterdam and Portugal. His practice draws directly from the street, where he gathers discarded materials: objects, fragments, and traces of everyday use, and reconfigures them into new forms.

Alongside his studio work, Mather maintains an active presence in public space, creating murals and urban interventions in cities across the United States and Europe. This dual approach informs a practice grounded in observation, reuse, and the shifting life of materials as they move through different contexts.

The works presented span several ongoing bodies of work developed over time, including pieces made during Mather’s residency at Bed-Stuy Art Residency in Brooklyn, New York, a program that supports experimentation and exchange. The exhibition takes place in tandem with a new mural project in Philadelphia, developed in collaboration with DutchCultureUSA (DCUSA), a program of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States, and Paradigm Gallery, reflecting on shared cultural connections between the United States and the Netherlands.

Please email info@paradigm-gallery.com to request to be added to Hyland Mather's digital collector preview list for his upcoming collection. You may also submit your request HERE.

I VI (detail), Shaun Kardinal, woven paper ephemera and artist's tape, 60x67 inches, 2026

About Shaun Kardinal 
Shaun Kardinal is a cross-disciplinary visual artist interested in disparate parts forming unified wholes and the interconnectedness of all things. Born in central California and rooted for many years in Seattle, he immersed himself in the arts community as an exhibiting artist, gallery member, and graphic designer and web developer for many arts organizations—work that led to his current position at Civilization, a design studio serving designers, architects, cultural institutions, and grassroots organizers.

With embroidered postcards and other woven paper ephemera, his ongoing studio practice combines destruction and refortification, as cuts and punctures are renewed in threaded connection, and many like parts merge to reveal new forms. The repetitive coordination of these ubiquitous substrates forms complex and undivided wholes, enacting something larger than the materials. This practice has expanded to include modular installations and collaborative projects, series that always echo his core interest in how diverse elements ultimately form something undivided.

In 2020, he moved to the East Coast, renewing his practice in Baltimore and Philadelphia soon after, where he now resides. His work has been exhibited internationally, widely published, and collected extensively, and is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery in Seattle. This Paradigm Gallery exhibition is his first in Philly (Go Birds) and debuts as he prepares for the RONDO international artist residency (CDMX).

Please email info@paradigm-gallery.com to request to be added to Shaun Kardinal's digital collector preview list for all of his upcoming collection. You may also submit your request HERE.

About Paradigm Gallery + Studio
Paradigm Gallery + Studio® was established in 2010 by co-founders and curators Jason Chen and Sara McCorriston. The gallery exhibits meaningful, process-intensive contemporary artwork by emerging and mid-career artists from around the world, with a focus on Philadelphia. In 2023, Paradigm moved locations and opened its new 5-story, 7,000 sq. ft. home, The Paradigm Arts Building, in Old City, Philadelphia. Open to the public, the building boasts multiple floors of exhibition space, integrated in-house design and printmaking, a dedicated events floor, and art advisory offices. With this, Chen and McCorriston expanded their vision for the greater Philadelphia arts community. The gallery is at the heart of this vision, anchoring Paradigm’s overall mission of increasing access to the commercial art world, supporting artists and advancing their careers, and collaborating with like-minded partners to build a more equitable, sustainable arts economy for all.

EXHIBITION HOURS
Thursdays • 10 AM – 6 PM
Fridays • 10 AM – 6 PM
Saturdays • 11 AM – 6 PM
Sundays • 11 AM – 5 PM
Mon-Wed by appointment.

MEDIA CONTACT
For all inquiries, contact info@paradigm-gallery.com

LOCATION
12 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram: @ParadigmGS