Seasick

Eli Ridgway Gallery presents Wolfgang Ganter: Seasick, a suite of large-scale works by the German artist. Ganter begins with found photographic transparencies and subjects them to organic processes of decay — cultures that bloom across the emulsion, eating into the image and leaving behind crystalline veils, fissures, and washes of unstable color. Scanned at high resolution, printed at scale, and mounted to wood with epoxy, the results hover between photograph and painting.

In Seasick the source images are maritime — a tall ship, a harbor, a windswept shore, a distant coast — and the decay reads as weather and tide. The recognizable world corrodes, dissolves, and reforms as pure atmosphere: Ascension, Dissolution, Sundown. What began as a fixed record of a place becomes something unstable and oceanic, caught mid-transformation.

At the exhibition’s center is a kinetic sculpture, The Flying Dutchman (2008), made in collaboration with Kaj Aune — a clanking, swaying contraption of found industrial objects built around the ghost-ship legend.