With her latest solo exhibition, “Still Point,” at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, artist Indivi Sutton deepens her exploration of color, breath, and presence — reminding us why we’ll always return to her work.

There are certain artists who become part of The House’s visual language — voices we return to, whose work feels like a reflection of our own pursuit of beauty, quiet, and meaning. Indivi Sutton is one of them. With her new exhibition Still Point, now showing at Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York, Sutton reminds us why subtlety remains one of the most radical gestures in contemporary art.

A Familiar Calm

Those who know Sutton’s work will recognize the sensibility instantly: powdered pigments, brushed and washed into raw linen, forming what feels less like image and more like atmosphere. But in this new collection, there’s an almost imperceptible shift — the calm still holds, but the edges hum. The color radiates in ways that feel both anchored and newly alive.

When you stand in front of one of her paintings — say, Hovering at the edge of appearance and disappearance — it’s hard to know whether the light is emanating from the canvas or simply from you, meeting it halfway. That’s the spell of Sutton’s work: she teaches you to see how perception itself is a living thing.

Why We Can’t Look Away

Sutton could paint fog and somehow make it feel like a revelation — but her practice touches something universal. It’s not just the subtlety of tone, or how she coaxes color into behaving like emotion; it’s the sense that her paintings are alive in their stillness. They ask nothing of you except presence — and, paradoxically, that presence transforms you.

We find ourselves captivated because Sutton’s paintings behave like memory. They shimmer just beyond articulation. You can’t summarize them any more than you can describe the color of a dream. That elusiveness is their power — the kind of quiet beauty that lingers long after you’ve turned away.

A Connection That Endures

At The House, we often talk about art that makes you want to slow down, and Sutton’s practice feels like a manifesto for that idea. Her work is not meant to be consumed; it’s meant to be lived with, to settle into your interior world. Perhaps that’s why our readers have responded so strongly to her past exhibitions — her paintings hold the same qualities we try to capture across these pages: softness, curiosity, reverence for beauty that doesn’t shout.

As she continues her journey — now represented by Franklin Parrasch Gallery, with residencies in Italy and the Berkshires ahead — what’s most exciting isn’t the trajectory but the consistency. Sutton remains true to the same humble, radiant pursuit: to translate color into consciousness.

Still Point is on view at Franklin Parrasch Gallery through December 19, 2025.

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Photography courtesy of Franklin Parrasch Gallery and Indivi Sutton.