Ron Jude: Low Tide

January 9 – March 21, 2025

Ron Jude
Low Tide

January 9 – March 21, 2026

 

 

 

Gallery Luisotti is pleased to present Low Tide, Ron Jude’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. The works in this series draw from the intertidal zone as both a physical and conceptual framework, considering landscapes shaped by processes of exposure, erosion, and accumulation. In addition to depicting the temporary environments revealed by the ebbing tide, the photographs trace moments when underlying structures, materials, and forces—geological, organic, and temporal—are made perceptible, whether along the shoreline or in analogous environments elsewhere.

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Low Tide #2, 2025
Gelatin silver print
50 x 37.5 in.
Edition of 3

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Obsidian Mound, 2021
Gelatin silver print
50 x 37.5 in.
Edition of 3

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Music is integral to Ron Jude’s artistic process. While viewing these new images, listen to a playlist the musician Michael Muller created for Low Tide below.

 

Ocean Churn at High Tide, 2023
Gelatin silver print
37.5 x 50 in.
Edition of 3

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“The title, Low Tide, references the literal subject matter of many of the images, while alluding figuratively to the ebb and flow of anxiety in our increasingly strained environmental and political moment. As the ocean surface recedes, a fleeting glimpse of deep structure is offered, as terrestrial forces and the alien world of sea life are compressed into stark black and white images. These temporary landscapes aren’t created by the tide so much as exposed by its absence.” – Ron Jude

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Stalactites, 2020
Gelatin silver print
50 x 37.5 in.
Edition of 3

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Fungi, 2024
Gelatin silver print
40 x 30 in.
Edition of 3

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Maritime Forest, 2021
Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 in.
Edition of 3

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Tufa Formation, 2021
Gelatin silver print
24 x 18 in.
Edition of 3

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Fungi, 2024
Gelatin silver print
40 x 30 in.
Edition of 3

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Jude’s photographs inhabit a temporal scale that dwarfs human experience, revealing what is usually beyond our sensory grasp. The tide’s retreat mirrors his deliberate withdrawal of anthropocentric cues: there are no people, no architecture, no overt narrative—only the slow, relentless processes of the earth. Furthering the visual vocabulary found in his previous landscape work, Jude adopts an attitude that rejects rational thought in favor of the subconscious, owing a debt to Frederick Sommer’s Surrealist-inspired landscape photographs of the 1940s and 50s, which were often devoid of markers of scale or distance. Jude’s Low Tide images can be tense and foreboding in mood, with a nod to the ontological themes that run throughout much of his work.

 

 

Limestone Sub-caves with Calcite (Solution Cave), 2023
Gelatin silver print
37.5 x 50 in.
Edition of 3

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Low Tide (Sea Anemone/Kelp), 2025
Gelatin silver print
40 x 30 in.
Edition of 3

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