We are pleased to announce the inaugural vernissage at puddle gallery, fittingly named In the Puddle.

A puddle appears as an outwardly cohesive collection of disparate water molecules — usually from rain, or a spill — and lingers before it fully evaporates, absorbs, or goes into the drains to flow out to the big puddle, the sea. 

a puddle hopper is the term for a plane from one water destination to the other. travel from small sea to small sea is called puddle-hopping. 

the artworks and artists gather to play in the surface pool after the rain, not solely in frivolity, but as a form of materials inquiry — splashing around to figure out the depth—what lies invisible beneath the puddle? grate, iron, concrete, wood, or raw earth? 

take for instance the indelible work by john baldessari “nose” 2010 which forms a sort of intellectual and visual center of the show, where a decontextualized nose floats on a puddle of green atop the human face—where the nose is like rain boots amongst the water’s obscuring formic anonymity.

This initial grouping of artists embraces the spontaneous, the off-kilter, the accidental, the celebration of weather events and wet paint.