Expanding the Plane" brings together five contemporary artists who challenge traditional notions of painting by pushing the material to its physical boundaries—exploring its sculptural potential and redefining our understanding of pictorial space. Each artist approaches this inquiry through distinct methods, working with surfaces such as burlap, wood, metal, folded acrylic skins, and dry pigments. Here, paint transcends its conventional role, becoming an active, transformative force in the creation of form. These works reject the constraints of traditional painting, engaging directly with space and expanding the limits of pictorial expression. The artists seek to bring form into being through the raw materiality of paint itself, inviting the viewer to contemplate the tension between the ephemeral and the eternal, and the shifting relationship between form, surface, and perception.