An Exhibition of Learning
41st Grade is a place where repetition becomes memory, and memory becomes myth.
These works were made during a quiet breakdown and a steady rebuild.
The surfaces are worn, stamped, scratched, erased and rewritten.
Everything here is trying — sometimes too hard, sometimes not at all.
Look closely. Effort hides in every mark.
Bill Mastre works where the mind frays a little and patterns begin to show themselves.
Raised in North Dakota, he learned early that survival often depends on repetition — do it again, try it again, keep trying. His studio is part archive, part laboratory, part confession booth.
Each mark comes from lived experience: mental health, memory, breakdown, rebuilding. The work is rigorous, handmade, and often obsessive.
Every surface tells a story. Truth shows up, even when no one’s looking.
Bill Mastre
where do you see the pattern?
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