Gallery Luisotti is pleased to present Ron Jude: 12 Hz. The title of this series, 12 Hz, references the lowest frequency threshold of human hearing, thus suggesting forces that lie at and beyond the limits of human perception. For Jude, those forces are the unseen, slow, planetary processes that shape Earth’s natural systems, forces apparent in the series’ wide-ranging subject matter: lava fields, coastal caves, tidal flows, waterfalls, forest floors, and glaciers.

Initially exhibited at Gallery Luisotti in 2018, in an exhibition the Los Angeles Times’s Leah Ollman stated “A visit to Ron Jude’s ravishing show at Luisotti presses the reset button, recalibrating our scale of significance and restoring to awe its rightful measure of stunned respect.” 12 Hz was subsequently expanded with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and published in book form by MACK in the Fall of 2020. The current exhibition is thus an opportunity to view the full range of Jude’s project, a body of work invested in our need to respect and admire the natural world, while appreciating those processes that exist beyond our understanding.

—Robinson Jeffers