SOLUTIO

A cross-disciplinary exhibition featuring work by

Alexis Stiteler, Cara Marie Piazza (Calyx Studios), Cadis and Midden Projects

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 6–9 PM

Open Studio Days: Friday, May 15 & Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 12 -6pm

Location: Calyx Studios, 435 South 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 - Studio 1 ( Buzzer one or the open garage door - weather permitting )

This May, Calyx Studios opens its doors to Solutio, an exhibition of three practices embracing the slowness of material exploration. The natural dyes of Cara Marie Piazza (Calyx Studios), the drawings of Alexis Stiteler, lighting sculpture of Cadis, and the furniture of McKeever Donovan (Midden Projects) all share a faith in patient transformation.

Solutio takes its name from the alchemical stage of dissolution — the deliberate breaking-down of a substance so that something new might emerge. Across dye vats, drawings, and forged objects, the exhibition traces a through-line of material transmutation. Plants rendered into color, observation distilled into line, wood, metal and resins shaped by hand and time into form. Each practice operates by its own slow logic, yet each is grounded in a shared attention to source, process, and the small alchemies of making.

Presented together in the working environment of Calyx Studios, the exhibition invites visitors to move between finished works and the spaces where they were made. Rather than functioning as a traditional gallery display, Solutio unfolds as an open studio — a place where the evidence of process remains visible, and where the dialogue between four makers can be felt in proximity.

If you’re not in town but interested in the works, please email info@caramariepiazza.com for the price list and information. Shirts in collaboration with Alexis Stiteler will launch May16th online. Save the date.