Arcadia Gallery is pleased to present Time Slot, an exhibition of new work by Leigh Suggs that examines how visual perception shapes the experience of time. Rather than offering immediate visual resolution, Suggs’ work rewards sustained looking, inviting viewers to slow down and engage perception as a durational process.

Drawing from early memories of perceiving color beneath closed eyelids—known as phosphenes—Suggs approaches vision as an active, temporal encounter. Across the exhibition, color is treated as contingent and perceptual rather than fixed. Subtle shifts in hue, opacity, and form register differently depending on how long and how closely one looks, producing multiple readings within a single work.

Suggs paints both sides of the paper, creating saturated surfaces alongside diffused chromatic radiance that extends into surrounding space. These low-relief constructions blur the boundary between image and object, while recurring ocular forms reference the mechanics of seeing itself. In select works, color gives way entirely to form, challenging optical stability and requiring the viewer’s eye to continually adjust.

Time Slot brings together Suggs’ precise paper constructions and her ongoing investigation into perception as a structure for temporal experience, where meaning emerges through duration rather than instant legibility.

To read the full extended curatorial statement, click here

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 26, from 6–8pm.

RSVP is required for Coffee & Conversation with the artist on Saturday, February 28, from 11am–12pm. To attend, please email sarah@arcadiaappraisals.com.