Wind Tide: Half Calendar
August 31 - October 16, 2022
Reception Sunday September 11, 4-7pm

CO-OPt Research + Projects presents a series-in-progress of mixed-media works on plywood by CO-OPt members Wind Tide (Andrew Weathers and Gretchen Korsmo).

“Half Calendar is the midway point in a yearlong project. Each month we leave a sheet of plywood in the backyard of Wind Tide. Throughout the month we collage, print, and otherwise modify the panel which is also acted on by the elements–sun, wind, (occasional) rain. With the exception of adhesive, all materials used are items already in our home and studio or found in the street, or, if we're real lucky, blown directly into the yard. Each panel is a record of the month's weather and the material detritus of our lives processed through an improvisatory activated entropy. We start each month with a full four-foot-by-eight-foot sheet of plywood, which is then framed and cut down to a size appropriate to our backyard storage shed. The Calendar is an attempt to further integrate daily creative activity outside of capitalist aspirations into our lives.”

The full calendar of works will be exhibited in early 2023 at Project Project in Omaha, Nebraska.

About the artists:

Wind Tide is the sound, visual art, and architectural practices of Andrew Weathers and Gretchen Korsmo as well as the name of their home and studio space, a renovated commercial building in downtown Littlefield, Texas. Despite the interdisciplinary nature of Wind Tide's practice, the work has a conceptual grounding across media and engages with notions of place, space, and environment and is very often made from found or recycled materials. Wind Tide has released sound work on the Full Spectrum and Never Anything labels and has shown visual work at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (Lubbock, TX) and Lasso Gallery (Amarillo, TX) as well as expanded cinema at No Name Cinema (Santa Fe, NM).