Curator’s Talk | SONORAN HOURGLASS: Behold the Gloaming Crepuscular
August 27 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Curator’s Talks | Tuesday, August 25 & Thursday, August 27 | 10:00 am
Main Gallery
Free with Admission
Join us in the Exhibit House with Director of Arts, James Schaub for a discussion about SONORAN HOURGLASS: Behold the Gloaming Crepuscular.
A day is composed of 24 hours; split in half, the cycle is equal parts day and night, twelve-hour intervals – heralded by the transitional phases of dawn and dusk. The exhibition series SONORAN HOURGLASS will survey how time moves over the Sonoran Desert in the most obvious and subtle of ways – through the air: the light, the temperature, the mood, the pressure – through the landscape: the creatures, the water, the plants, the earth – through the cosmos. Using abstract notions and temporal quotients of past, present, and future, the classic form and function of an hourglass hearkens time’s effect in slow dissolution or methodical accretion, lending a timeless tone and romance to this project.
If circadian rhythms direct existence, what happens during dusk? What kind of art will truly Behold the Gloaming Crepuscular (dusk)?
Concentrating on the timeframe of dusk and all its workings, behold the gloaming crepuscular is the third installment in the series, SONORAN HOURGLASS.
Image: Clockwise from top left (details): Michael Afsa, Amber Vanhatala Stene, Erinn Kennedy, Eduardo Palazuelos