KEEP IT TOGETHER
August 2 - 29, 2025
Opening Reception, Saturday August 2, 2:00 – 5:00pm

The Assembly Gallery is pleased to present Keep It Together, a solo exhibition by Adam Matak that navigates the fragile tensions of domestic life through richly layered collage.
Working with cut paint swatches, patterned forms, and the visual vocabulary of everyday life, Matak’s latest works pull from the architecture and textures of home: brick backyard walls, laundry baskets, bedrooms, wilted flower arrangements, junk drawers, and the quiet pressure of keeping it all from spilling over.

In this exhibition , Matak examines how domestic roles, emotional labour, and physical environments coalesce into a space that is always near the edge of breakdown. The work suggests that caretaking, like collage, is both intimate and structural—fragile, improvisational, and always subject to entropy.

At once tender, overwhelmed, and composed, Keep It Together asks not just what it means to hold a family or space together, but who is expected to do it—and what happens when they try.


Assembly Gallery
68 King Street East
Hamilton, ON

Gallery hours: Monday- Friday 8am to 6pm,
Saturday 9am-6pm
Sunday 9am-6pm