Crystal Gregory: Hypergeographies of the Dye Garden @ Municipal Bonds

Editor’s Pick

“Like a finger-print left on the freshly painted wall or a leaf embedded in the sidewalk, Crystal Gregory casts tender textiles in concrete permanence, capturing the organic essence of the plants she grows to dye her weavings. Spellbound by cement, grids are whimsically warped, threads are pulled through flattened ravines. Hypergeographies of the Dye Garden exhibits a dance suspended between delicacy and construction, density and motion.”

- Zoe Spikerman

About the Exhibition

Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Hypergeographies of the Dye Garden, Crystal Gregory's first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from May 2 through June 20, 2026.

Gregory, based in Lexington, Kentucky, centers her new work on handwoven textiles dyed with plants grown in her garden. Each plant yields a distinct color shaped by the conditions of a specific place and time, with climate and season held in the palette. That color enters the work as a record of its origin and continues through the life of the textile, as Gregory brings her weaving into relation with concrete, silver, and wood. Here, cultivation and construction meet, and weaving extends into a spatial and architectural language grounded in place.