
Ruaridh Law: Triadic Paths
Algorithmic Art Assembly Exhibition
Solo Exhibition of Historic Media Works, curated by Thorsten Sideboard for Algorithmic Art Assembly v. 3.0.
Ruaridh Law: Triadic Paths
March 26 – April 12, 2026
On view in the Gray Area Gallery as part of Algorithmic Art Assembly v3.0
Friday open hours: 1 – 6 PM
Standing program
All ages
Trigger warning for depictions of mental illness in film
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About the Exhibition
For version 3.0 of the Algorithmic Art Assembly, Gray Area is pleased to host a solo exhibition of work by Scottish-born artist Ruaridh Law, curated by Thorsten Sideboard.
Triadic Paths is a collection of three works Law's oeuvre, each tripartite in some way. Having previously exhibited outdoors, in clubs, in group gallery shows and more unusual locations, this marks the first time that a collection of his works have been brought together inside. Each has a deep connection to memory, the psyche and the intangibility of thought.
I Like To Remember Things My Own Way was originally conceived as a live performance piece, looping clips from David Lynch's Lost Highway over and over again until they degrade and corrupt. This then evolved into a narrative film (screened here) for Repeater Books in 2022, with the voice of Luke Hansbury charting a spiral of lost memory and decaying cognition - an abstract horror, with neurological failure as the villain, split into three sections.
Bare Windows, Many Shades has previously been exhibited in clubs as well as gallery spaces. Three tripod mounted screens display heavily processed footage of clubs that had a profound impact on the artist. Locking the viewer in via headphones and small screen, the nostalgia and often inaccurate memories become shared, with hazy, reverb-drenched reimaginings of the music filling the ears.
And lastly 44: A Tarot For Sietse Van Erve presents a custom made tarot deck and control interface to explore the image, sound and narrative in the cards. Having been performed outside in the Forest Of Galloway as a participatory piece, and used in several performances as a live instrument, this iteration brings it into the gallery space as a standalone installation, allowing the participants to deal their own cards and create audio and visual stimulus over the three cards.
About the Artist
Ruaridh Law
Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Over 25+ years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. His mediums include sound and installation art, film and writing. His works have ranged from intimate audio performance and gallery installations to large-scale outdoor works combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling. His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases. He runs several record labels and, more recently, No Roof Only Sky, a small press publisher.
