In her debut Maine exhibition Breaking Wave, New York City-based artist Amanda Valdez exhibited new works created especially for the geometric, multi-level space of the Charles Danforth Gallery at the University of Maine at Augusta.

The exhibition’s title referenced the ways Valdez's works create and then break down linear structures with organic shapes, and also the ways curvilinear shapes spring from the strictures of the grid. Hybridizing weaving, quilting, and drawing to create textile “paintings,” Valdez’s new works intertwine the linear structure of the grid, which mirrors and symbolizes (in weaving diagrams) the warp and weft of the loom or the squares of a quilt and the architecture of the Danforth Gallery, and the organic gestures of nature and of painting.