April 24 - May 5

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 26, 4-6pm

Artist Talk: Sunday, May 11, 4:40pm

440 Gallery is pleased to present The Moment Before You Run, a solo exhibition of mixed-media tapestries by Juliet Martin. Using a combination of Masonite cutouts, hand-woven fabric, digital manipulation, and metallic paint, the collection explores fear, perception, and identity through the tenuous relationship between a rabbit and a cloud. Each pair is caught in a moment of recognition—the moment before the rabbit will run.

The rabbit sees herself in the cloud, mistaking it for a mirror. This realization is terrifying. Is she confronting her own reflection, or something unrecognizable? Fear takes hold, and she is caught in a state of transition—on the verge of fleeing, of vanishing, of becoming something else.

Martin’s work examines the fragile boundary between self-awareness and fear. Drawing, as an immediate link between mind and hand, is central to her practice, and her layered materials create an environment of uncertainty, distortion, and transformation.

The expressive, emotive rabbit is juxtaposed against stark, abstract forms, highlighting the push and pull between the organic and the mechanical, the intimate and the distant. The gallery becomes a liminal space, where the rabbit, frozen between reflection and flight, is caught in a confrontation. Is she frightened by what she sees—or by the fact that she sees herself at all?

Martin writes: “Fear is not always about an external force. It can be in the recognition of yourself. The rabbit exists in this fragile moment, on the verge of running, of vanishing, of becoming something else — representational? Amorphous? This is the moment before movement.”

Juliet Martin has a BA in Visual Art from Brown University and an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts. For the past fifteen years she has been a part of the fiber community, her solo shows including Ivy Brown Gallery, New York City; Chashama, New York City; Living Room, St. Peter’s Church, New York City; Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; Artworks Gallery, Trenton, NJ; and Saori Kaikan Gallery, Osaka, Japan; as well as residencies at MASS MoCA and in Japan. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and she was named one of the “Women Artists to Watch” by Artsy. She is a member of 440 Gallery in Brooklyn. She lives and weaves in Brooklyn.