Jim Waid: Reflections

Jim Waid (b. 1942, Elgin, Oklahoma, lives and works Tucson, Arizona) has spent more than five decades pursuing a language of abstraction attuned to the natural world. 

Known for his immersive, large-scale paintings, Waid seeks the essence of the desert landscape through fields of color, texture, and movement. 

Jim Waid: Reflections offers rare insight into his practices on paper. In recent years, Waid has been mining his archive, revisiting earlier paintings and producing new interpretations now mediated by both time and technology. Alternative to preparatory sketches, these are studies in the reverse: acts of reflection that become opportunities for re-creation. Through this process, past compositions are living sources to be opened, tested, and imagined anew.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website