Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 2025 · 4–7 p.m.

Cruise Control Contemporary is proud to close its 2025 program with Idle Heart, a solo exhibition of monochrome watercolors on aged paper by Sky Fusco, opening Saturday, November 15 from 4–7 p.m. Fusco, who lives and works on the Central Coast, becomes the first artist to return for a second solo show at the gallery—a full-circle gesture that mirrors her own practice: cyclical, reflective, and grounded in place.

Painted in grayscale washes that waver between clarity and fog, Idle Heart feels like memory rendered visible. Trucks idle on desert roads. Billboards stand blank against mountain ranges. A horizon softens and slips away. The paper itself, weathered and uneven, carries the weight of time—inviting viewers to slow down, to look longer, to sense the impermanence in the everyday. These are not scenes of nostalgia so much as meditations on the passage of things: photographs fading, engines cooling, light changing across a windshield.

From her studio in Morro Bay—Rock Shop, a storefront-turned-experimental space—Fusco cultivates a practice that folds art-making into the daily rhythms of her coastal life. Between morning walks with her dog and evenings by the Pacific, she brings people together at Rock Shop for shared hours of making, writing, and conversation. That same quiet generosity threads through Idle Heart: the belief that attention itself can be an act of care, and that art can hold the space for it.

In an age of constant scroll and rapid refresh, Idle Heart offers something tenderly resistant. The exhibition stands as both a reaction and a refuge—a reminder that meaning can still emerge from the unhurried, the handmade, the slightly imperfect. Each work extends the viewer the benefit of the doubt: that patience and imagination are still within reach.

Rooted in the landscape and temperament of California’s Central Coast, Idle Heart asks what remains when speed fades. The show opens November 15 and runs through the end of the year at Cruise Control Contemporary in Cambria, CA—a fitting finale to a year defined by reflection, return, and renewal.