Deep Talks: 2025 SURF AiR Chris Combs on his upcoming exhibit
Join the 2025 SURF Artist in Residence (AiR) Chris Combs for a preview of his fall art exhibit titled, Desperate Remedy/Little Ones.
The October 2nd edition of SURF's Deep Talks series held at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center features the 2025 SURF AiR, Chris Combs, showcasing his upcoming gallery exhibit, "Desperate Remedy/Little Ones."
In "Desperate Remedy/Little Ones," Combs, asks: What is it like to hunt something invisible, omnipresent, and vanishingly tiny, which leaves almost no trace of its existence? This exhibition of interactive and time-based sculptures, which are made with found objects, metal, wood, and industrial materials, considers the neutrino, a tiny, almost-massless particle found in staggering quantities all around us. Its central installation, "Little Ones," places visitors into the perspective of the neutrino by allowing them to "collide" with hanging "atoms," made with used copper gaskets from a detector at SURF and the artist's own custom circuit boards.
The exhibit will be on display at the Black Hills State University Ruddell Gallery in Spearfish starting with a reception on the evening of October 7. Learn more about the gallery and this upcoming exhibit here: https://bhsu.edu/university-resources/ruddell-gallery.html
How to attend Deep Talks:
Deep Talks will be held at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center (160 W. Main Street) in Lead, South Dakota. The event begins at 5 p.m. MT with a social hour, featuring a beer tasting from Crow Peak Brewing Company (21+ only) and light refreshments. Speaker presentations will begin at 6 p.m. MT.
Deep Talks is made possible by Crow Peak Brewing Company, Edward Jones Financial Advisor – Chris Mitchell, RCS Construction, and Charles & Jolene Lichtenwalner.