Desperate Remedy/Little Ones - SURF 2025 AiR exhibit opening

Chris Combs, 2025 SURF Artist-in-Residence, presents his work at the Ruddell Gallery Black Hills State University
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