11.26 (Blue Sun), 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 25 x 33 inches
11.8 (Slalom), 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 35 1/2 x 47 inches
10.29 (High Tide), 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
10.29 (Low Tide), 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
10.29 (Ebb Tide), 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
10.29 (Spring Tide), 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
10.29 (High Tide) / 10.29 (Low Tide)
10.29 (Ebb Tide) / 10.29 (Spring Tide)
10.19 (Double Dip), 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 27 x 35 inches
12.29 (Quiet One), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
9.24 (Queenie), 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 25 x 33 inches
9.24 (Queenie) / 11.9 (The Natural)
Moonrise, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
Blue Lagoon (Maxell), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Blue Lagoon (Maxell) / Afra
Afra, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Arthur Ashe, 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 33 x 43 inches
Bjorn Borg, 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 33 x 43 inches
Arthur Ashe / Bjorn Borg
Plum Moon, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Andre Agassi, 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 34 x 44 inches
Plum Moon / Andre Agassi
Io, 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 45 1/2 x 56 1/2 inches
Love Potion, 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 56 1/2 x 45 1/2 inches
Io / Love Potion
Two Dollar Bill, 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 26 1/2 x 19 inches
Soda Pop, 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 26 1/2 x 19 inches
Good Cookin’, 2020, acrylic on dyed paper, 30 x 40 inches
Slow Tide at Pt. 2 Gallery
Oakland, California | January 9 - February 5, 2021
Slow Tide expands Ording’s oeuvre of dyed and methodically painted works through deep investigations in both landscape and abstraction. Ording’s second solo exhibition with the gallery demonstrates the artist’s exploration in scale and medium as well, featuring a number of large-format works and works on canvas.
In Slow Tide, Ording’s interests in geometry and color theory intersect with the imposition of an imposed domestic life in which routine and repetition became standard. The conceptual weight of these ideas and lifestyle manifest muted landscape and elaborate geometric abstractions.
Ording’s work plays with control and order. In her works on paper, she juxtaposes the two with different techniques. Processing thick, homemade paper with dye, Ording leaves much agency to the material itself, responding to the deepening of tone and the implication of form. This letting go is reigned in with her fragile and precise line work in acrylic, her ineffable parallel straight edges and spirals rendered painstakingly by hand.