Tanner Lind approaches his painting in a manner similar to the way a musician might pursue the perfect, culminating melody. To riff is to meander and bring together repeated chord progressions or sets of notes towards a unified whole. These reiterations form the rhythm of the work, honoring change and sameness at once. In his paintings, change as a result of this exploration is celebrated. Deviating from a static interpretation of this musical practice, Lind’s riffs on lines, stains, and movement appear dynamically layered, building upon each other on the raw surfaces to create work that is breathing and active. Thick and swooping brushstrokes overlap gridded elements and punches of color that resemble sporadic airbrushed bursts on the canvases. Different shades of familiar grays and blacks in the painting Gravity Assist create a stunning depth in both style and execution, precisely demonstrating a repetitive technique that is far from stagnant. 

These decisions make up Lind’s ever-expanding lexicon of marks and thoughts surrounding a belief that experimentation is innately built into the creative process. As such, the paintings on view in this series each exhibit an individual evolution as much as a communal progress. They become remnants of an artist’s infinitely shifting discovery of change.