Sculpting Time January 28 – February 27, 2009
The Martin Art Gallery in the Baker Center for the Arts at Muhlenberg College proudly presents Sculpting Time, January 28 – February 27, 2009.Monday, January 19, 2009 11:22 AM
An opening reception will be held in the Martin Gallery Wednesday, January 28, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Dr. Ara Osterweil will present a lecture, Contemporary Art and its Temporal Impulses, in the Baker Center, February 18, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Traditionally, art has positioned itself to be eternal. Art objects were meant to outlast their creators and be durable, transcendent and permanent. Curator and Associate Professor of Art and Film Studies at Muhlenberg, Ara Osterweil chose five artists—Kasper Akhøj, David Baumflek, Tamar Guimarães, Daniel Lichtman, Rainy Lehrman, and Alia Malley—to address, and perhaps upend, that notion of permanence. Working in sculpture, installation, photography, video and multimedia they strive to investigate both traditional and emergent concepts of time. Their responses are as diverse as the contexts from which their creative practice has emerged—Brazil, Los Angeles, Denmark, and New York.
Osterweil comments, “Much of the work examines the significant distinctions between real and virtual time, geological and human time, recorded and erased time, remembered and forgotten time, as well as rapid and unhurried time. By meditating on the ambiguities that emerge from these temporal dualities, the artists hope to suggest new ways of regarding and experiencing time.
Sculpting Time is part of the Martin Gallery’s continuing series of group exhibitions by emerging artists. All exhibitions and gallery events are open to the public and free of charge. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon – 9:00 p.m. For information, contact Kathryn Burke, 484.664.3467 or [email protected].
