Colored People Time: Quotidian Pasts

By Devin Malone

JUL-AUG 2019 | ArtSeen

A group of white sculptures sit atop glistening aluminum pedestals. To the right, two TV screens flash images of dancers, ritual objects, and footage from a post-war game show. An adjacent wall has been painted green to mimic the palette of a natural history museum and bears a single photograph.

Shifting and Symmetry of Time

By George Widener

JUL-AUG 2018 | Critics Page

Although my investigations and conceptions of time are certainly self-taught and personal, they are not necessarily outside the canon of human experience or destiny. They’re in fact juxtaposed to the future evolution of technology and human neurological development. This is to say that perhaps one day some of my pictures will awaken from their present hibernation. The question here is whether my calendric calculations and reference points are merely personal or whether they’re connected to a futuristic synergized public.

Diana Copperwhite: The Clock Struck Between Time

By Robert R. Shane

JUNE 2019 | ArtSeen

The question one asks while experiencing Diana Copperwhite’s new paintings is: When are they happening? As the exhibition title, The Clock Struck Between Time suggests, the artwork places us in an ambiguous temporal space, drifting from the present moment into a memory still struggling to take form.

FERNANDO PALMA RODRÍGUEZ:
In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People

By Jonelle Mannion

JUNE 2018 | ArtSeen

In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People is an exhibition of work made over the past two decades by Mexican artist and mechanical engineer Fernando Palma Rodríguez. Each of the mechanical-alchemical sculptures in the exhibition is rigged with light or ultrasonic sensors to be activated by observing bodies, which thereby become interacting bodies.