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THIN PLACES is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibitions: Diversions, a solo presentation of new paintings on panel and paper by Derry Caldon, alongside a group exhibition of works on paper by twenty artists from around the world.

Named after the mystical concept describing sites where the boundary between worlds feels unusually permeable, THIN PLACES is conceived as both an art gallery and a works on paper showroom—a space dedicated to perception, atmosphere, and material presence.

In Diversions, Caldon presents luminous desert landscapes suspended between observation and imagination. Drawing from the shifting conditions of the California High Desert, the paintings engage the region’s dramatic atmospheric phenomena: alpenglow, twilight gradients, crepuscular light, and the heightened chromatic clarity produced by arid air. Mountains, cloud formations, and open terrain emerge and dissolve through fluid passages of color, creating landscapes that feel at once geological and psychological.

Throughout the exhibition, light behaves less as illumination than as a transformative force. Landforms become unstable, time feels suspended, and familiar space gives way to something more liminal and experiential. The works evoke not only the desert itself, but the strange perceptual states the desert can produce—moments where the boundary between memory, sensation, and place begins to thin.

The accompanying group presentation expands upon these ideas through works on paper that explore liminality, distance, ritual, perception, and psychic space across a wide range of practices and geographies. Together, the exhibitions propose the gallery itself as a kind of thin place: a site where reality loses its footing and direct experience becomes heightened.