Vaughn Davis Jr.: Wade in the Water presents new works alongside a site-responsive installation that approaches painting as a condition shaped by action, material, and space. Working on unstretched canvas with wet pigment, Davis Jr. allows color to bleed, pool, and disperse as water carries dye across the surface before receding. The canvas is then cut, folded, and creased — shifting from passive support to active structure. What begins as a field becomes a form, painting not composed but altered, stressed, and reconfigured through physical intervention.
