Now Open: ‘Tiona Nekkia McClodden: PURE GAZE’ at White Cube New York (Until 18 October 2025) In ‘PURE GAZE,’ Tiona explores the idea of pressure through prolonged constriction, or a hold in excess of duration. Leather canvases are bound using traditional Japanese kinbaku-bi rope techniques and treated with a range of hand-dyed colour processes that produce abstract blooms, visually invoking wounds or bruises. The artist stated: ‘For ‘PURE GAZE,’ I wanted to explore making work from a pure aesthetic framework, as well as the complexity of doing so, given my subjective being and intersectional identity, and its entanglement with society and the world. The attempt involved taking the position of the pure gaze in the studio; it felt more honest and allowed me to work from something internal to my process, towards the production of aesthetic-based work.’ Click the link in our bio to read the artist’s full statement about the exhibition. Images: ‘Tiona Nekkia McClodden: PURE GAZE’, Whit...