Between Skin and Bone
Anji Woodley & Tyson Mason

Skin Remembers. Pencil Records. Neither tells the whole story.

What remains of an experience once the moment has passed? A trace, a gesture, a memory, a mark upon a surface. In Between Skin and Bone, Interval Gallery brings together Anji Woodley and Tyson Mason, two artists who approach these questions through markedly different materials and processes, yet arrive at a shared fascination with what lies beneath the immediately visible.

For Woodley, materials are never entirely passive. Leather, paper, wax and bone become instruments of experimentation, responding to pressure, manipulation and time. Her works move between painting and sculpture, transforming familiar substances into tactile forms that suggest skin, vulnerability and the structures that hold us together. As the artist explains, “I’m interested in what happens when a material is pushed beyond what it was originally intended for.”

Mason approaches the human experience through observation rather than physical transformation. Working with graphite and a mechanical pencil, he reconstructs fleeting moments of intimacy, humor, heartbreak and quietness. His drawings give ordinary gestures an unexpected permanence, revealing emotional complexity through patience, light and detail. “Light is very important to me,” he explains. “Great lighting adds an extra layer to the piece to isolate the moment.”

The dialogue between these practices is not one of similarity, but of contrast. Woodley investigates what physical materials can become; Mason considers what a passing human moment might reveal. Both invite a closer examination of experiences that are easily overlooked, whether embedded in the surface of an object or captured in the expression of another person.

Between Skin and Bone proposes that what is visible is never necessarily the whole story. Somewhere between material and memory, surface and emotion, the exhibition leaves room for the viewer to discover what remains.

Interval Gallery presents contemporary artists whose practices investigate perception, material, and cultural memory.

A single room on West Sunset Boulevard. Each exhibition is developed as a complete body of work rather than a group of individual pieces, and the room is hung with that in mind — enough space around each piece to let it be looked at properly.