THE SLIP

The exhibition explores the unintended collaboration and layered histories embedded in the Pollock-Krasner studio through the interplay of accidental and intentional marks left by Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Pollock's fluid, large-scale, poured paintings created splatters that extended onto the wooden floor, uncovered after conservators removed Masonite boards he used in 1953. Krasner, who later took over the studio, contributed her own unintentional marks on walls and other surfaces during her distinct, wall-mounted canvases process. These residues evoke an inadvertent dialogue between their practices, frozen in time as architectural and art-historical memory. In 1994, Warren Neidich amplified this dynamic by "unhanging" framed objects in the studio-turned-study-center, exposing ghostly oxidation patterns left on the walls, akin to a photographic process. These abstract shapes, combined with the displaced labels, became haikus inspiring imagination and new works. Neidich's documentation evolved into UV-printed paintings on gessoed linen, blending the accidental and the deliberate, bridging the past with contemporary reinterpretation.