Natural Law

Natural Law begins from the simple truth that entropy governs all things. At once structure and undoing, it’s the pulse that drives every system toward change.

That sense of powerlessness, recently heavier as control feels increasingly beyond our reach, became the impetus for this exhibition, an accumulation of small inevitabilities. In Tanya Marcuse’s Woven Nº 33, nature’s cycles of growth and decay fold into one surface, a quiet record of transformation. Anthony Baab’s Underground Storage turns structure into a system so controlled it begins to undo itself. Julie Blackmon’s Fixer Upper lingers on the quiet absurdity of renovation amid decay, where nature and time seem poised to take back what’s theirs. And Archie Scott Gobber’s You Can’t Make This Shit Up distills that same instability into language itself, transforming disbelief into invention with the erasure of a single word.

Taken together, the works suggest that the search for stability is itself unstable. The center doesn’t hold; it only shifts, briefly, before giving way. What they reveal instead are the fragile seams of the world, where order frays and the impulse to hold things together meets the certainty that we can’t.

Natural Law features work by Holly Andres, Anthony Baab, Miki Baird, Robert Bingaman, Julie Blackmon, Terry Evans, Corey Goering, Archie Scott Gobber, Bill Jacobson, Michael Krueger, Anne Lindberg, Tanya Marcuse, and Davin Watne.

image: Michael Krueger, the sublimity of mercy (carry my body over the ocean), 2025