Echoes in Soil by Tulu Bayar

Echoes in Soil
Tulu Bayar
October 14 - October 31, 2025
Reception: October 17, 5-7pm

Strata Gallery presents Echoes in Soil, a solo exhibition by Pennsylvania-based artist Tulu Bayar, on view October 14–31, with a reception on October 17 from 5–7pm.

In Echoes in Soil, Bayar gathers fragments—both physical and symbolic—to explore the quiet persistence of memory and transformation. Working with handmade paper as a tactile ground, she incorporates debris, folds, layered transfers, and ghostly prints to create surfaces that are porous, fragile, and singular. These works, drawn from her projects Twine (2023), Cultivated (2025), and Mosaic: Immigration Stories (2025), appear together for the first time, tracing how landscapes—both inherited and adopted—shape the stories we carry.

“I think of my process as a form of listening,” Bayar says. “Each piece begins with what the land and the materials are already saying. I add my hand, but the work speaks in its own voice.”

Bayar’s practice has been supported by a Fulbright Scholar Grant, Puffin Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and Ténot Foundation, as well as residencies including the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (William Sackett Fellow), Ucross, and Foundation House Connecticut and Woodstock Center for Photography to name a few. She holds an MFA from the University of Cincinnati and has exhibited widely across the U.S. and internationally. Her work is in public collections including Belfast Exposed Photography, the Samuel Dorsky Museum, and the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul. Bayar teaches art at Bucknell University. Echoes in Soil marks her second solo exhibition with Strata Gallery.

Strata Gallery is open from 11 am to 5 pm Tuesday – Saturday. For more information about Strata Gallery, the current exhibit, and the future schedule of events, please visit the Strata Gallery website and Instagram.