In a moment when our physical and social climates grow more precarious, Weather Stress Index exhibits recent artworks by Edgar Arceneaux, Rhea Dillon, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Analia Saban, and Charisse Pearlina Weston that register pressures exerted by their ever-shifting environments. An abrupt change in temperature cracks glass. Exposure to air tarnishes silver. Bodily contact perturbs otherwise smooth surfaces. Informed by chance and process, these artworks record shifts in their “predictably unpredictable” climates, visualizing changes in friction, humidity, gravity, and temperature.1

A new commission by Dillon brings an artwork coated in anti-climb paint—a non-drying substance often used on architecture to deter movement—into a museum context. Weston’s glass sculpture restages the cracked remnants of a previously fallen work, while Rasheed’s acrylic paper records the path of lick marks. A large-scale painting from Arceneaux’s Skinning the Mirror series joins these artworks. And finally, a canvas work by Saban, housed in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, is on view for the first time in over a decade.