The MSSU Cragin Art Gallery is pleased to present Unstable Ground, a solo exhibition by artist David Andree featuring paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works. The exhibition will be on view from June 15 through August 4, 2026.
In Unstable Grounds, painting becomes a record of forces that cannot be held. Wind lifts painted fabric into fleeting aerial formations. Water and cold freeze paintings into precarious sculptural volumes that collapse as they thaw. Each work occupies a brief interval between becoming and unbecoming, emerging through conditions that cannot be fully controlled.
The exhibition brings together David Andree’s Kite Works and Freeze Casting, presenting both the paintings themselves and photographic traces of their transformations in the landscape. These works move between painting and sculpture, object and event, image and residue. Their most charged forms occur in collaboration with weather, terrain, gravity, and time.
Rather than depicting landscape, the works are shaped by it. They register pressure, temperature, movement, resistance, and collapse. What remains are traces: marks carried by fabric, images preserved by photography, and memories of events that can no longer be fully recovered. Unstable Grounds considers how landscapes, histories, and lives are shaped by the continual tension between presence and disappearance, reflecting on instability as a condition of being in the world.
