April 2025 / Strange Time
Betsy Kenyon, Solar Drawing Series
Solar Drawing: Fall, Solar Maximum, single-continuous, flares
12 images, each image
11” x 14”
2024
In the Solar Drawing series I use film and a moving pinhole camera to image the sun. These sun tracings radiate and glow, continue and break up, they flare and overlap. Seasonal changes and weather, the spectrum of color quite timely and unique to each exposure.
Alexander Miller, Clock Poem
LCD screens, electronics, code, acrylic
17.36 × 7.48 × 3”
2025
Melissa Winstanley and Max Cerami, Flower Clock
kinetic sculpture, Felt, plastic, clay, wood, electronics
30” W x 2’ H x 1” D
2025
Flower Clock is a kinetic sculpture in which different species of artificial flowers open and close at specific times of day, thereby allowing one to tell the current time by which flowers are open. The photo currently shows “noon”.
Strange Time
https://strange-time.com
Allison Chan
Shelby Wilson
Betsy Kenyon
Alex Miller
Max Cerami
Tristan Huber
Melissa Winstanley
Zainab Aliyu
Kai Beck
Katy Ilonka Gero
Maxwell Neely-Cohen
Mick Marchan
Alex Nagy
Bar Smith
April 03 - 26, 2025
Opening Reception, Thursday, April 03, 5-8pm
Spring Gallery Hours:
Friday–Sunday, 12–5pm
Strange Time showcases new types of timekeeping devices, ones that are unusual and represent clocks and time in novel ways.
The clock is a symbol of the modern conception of time: absolute, quantifiable, precisely measured. But also: extractable, optimizable and exploitable. As the modern era grinds on, we can feel that this socially and culturally constructed conception of time is incongruous with the natural cycles of cosmos, body, and spirit. The "clocks” to be displayed reimagine the underlying tool by which time has become a resource to be extracted from a person, paid for by the hour.
Through these devices, we allow an opportunity for viewers to imagine a provoking new physics of time, and thereby conceive of new ways of being, free of the rigid structure imposed by the ticking clock.
Mick Marchan and Alex Nagy, Meditations
Audio Sculpture
3’ W x 3’ D x 5’ H
2025
Time is often communicated as an instantaneous snapshot. In contrast, 'meditations' encourages listeners to decipher its meaning via focused listening over an extended period of time. Through a mixture of spatial audio cues and rhythm, sonified clock hands become apparent to those who enter a meditative state and sit between the tines of this installation.
Kai Beck, RUSH RABBIT: TURTLE TIME
Arcade game, Interactive multimedia inside arcade cabinet
2’ W x 5’ H x 2’ D
2025