Keep an eye out for our brochures, posters, website, and social media profiles: Handwerker Gallery is turning 40 this Fall and unveiling an ambitious slate of exhibitions and co-hosted programming with the Departments of Art, Art History, Writing, and English; the LGBT Center; and the Women and Gender Studies Program.
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It’s About Time:
Past, present, future. Time is often described as the linear and chronological sequencing of events, a form derived to simplify chaos, establish ideas, and tell stories. Time counts, and is counted, at different personal, social, planetary, and universal scales: minutes, hours, days, moons, seasons, lifespans, styles, reigns, eras, epochs, eons.
But time can also beat the clock: it flies, it ripens, it fades, it warps, it slips away. We can be ahead of it, behind it, or out of it; we can bide it, have it, borrow it, take it, keep it, lose it, and race against it. George Kubler’s book, The Shape of Time, explores the notion that chronological mapping of time is inaccurate in describing the way that ideas, culture, and memories evolve. In 2017-2018 the Handwerker Gallery will stage a series of exhibitions considering different perspectives on the immensity, limitations, and dimensionalities of time coinciding with the 40th Anniversary of the Handwerker Gallery and the 125th Anniversary of Ithaca College.
Exhibitions during the 2017-2018 calendar will propose non-linear and volumetric understandings of time and space: as a series of doorways, as a spiral, as infinitely expansive, as a network of pathways. Gallery visitors will wander through portals between contemporary and historical spaces, ponder the immortal lives of biological specimens, and wonder about the geological immensity of both the archive and its flexible interpretation.
Don’t delay! The clock is ticking…
(...our first exhibitions will open on Wednesday September 6 with an opening reception on Thursday, September 7 (5-7pm) featuring work by Susan Weisend (Professor, Department of Art), and painter Leslie Brack. For more information and sneak-peaks, visit: www.ithaca.edu/handwerker/)
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All exhibitions and events at the Handwerker Gallery are free and open to the public. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Mara Baldwin at mbaldwin@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3548. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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