Holding Pattern brings together new work by Leigh Suggs and Alex Hutton, examining suspension as a state of anticipation. Working from familiar systems of order - grids, frameworks, and scaffolds - both artists test the limits of structure, creating compositions that hold together even as their meaning and stability remain in flux.
Hutton’s paintings depict architectural and mechanical forms caught in moments before activation, where clarity gives way to fragmentation and perceptual instability. Suggs, by contrast, builds her works through processes of cutting and excavation, opening the picture plane to reveal layered, shifting interior spaces. Across both practices, removal becomes generative, with absence functioning as a condition for new form.
The exhibition takes its title from an aviation term describing a controlled delay. Here, that logic becomes material: structures loop, gather, and extend without resolution, holding the viewer in a space where construction and collapse, tension and possibility, unfold simultaneously.
