Slow Tide

Slow Tide brings together ten artists who work with substances that move: water, ink, silt and pigment suspended in liquid. The show proposes that erosion is a form of drawing, and that time is the most patient tool in any studio.

Ari Valdés contributes four new canvases poured in a single session and left to dry at an incline. The cool greys and sea greens pull toward one edge, recording the exact slope of the studio floor on the day they were made.

Around them, the other works trace similar thresholds between control and release. Together they ask what it means to finish a work when the material keeps changing its mind.