MAKING TIME

Featuring: Sarah Bedford, Juan Angel Chavez, Isabella Cuglievan, Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Robert Heinecken, Paul Heyer, Ben Houtkamp, Kysa Johnson, Sung Jang, Tony Matelli, Kristoffer McAfee, Alessandra Norman, Carolyn Ottmers, Sterling Ruby, A.V. Ryan, Claudia Peña Salinas and Jacqueline Surdell.

Secrist | Beach is pleased to present Making Time, a salon presentation curated by artist Stephen Eichhorn. The title of the exhibition is taken from a concept called "The Archeology of Time". This states that if we want to understand what time is, then we need to accept that things, or objects, do not just exist in time, they make time. Featuring seventeen artists working in a variety of mediums, on view will be works of art that represent a variety of philosophical and metaphysical ideas about how objects exist within and interact with the framework of time. Making Time is presented in conjunction with the solo exhibition VOIDGROUND by Stephen Eichhorn at 1801 W. Hubbard St. from June 14 - August 22, 2024.

The artworks in Making Time use elements of organica as a way of exploring the dichotomy between objects and time. With materials made from - or representing - flowers, wood, fiber, rock, light, seeds, clay and the human figure, each artwork/object offers profound insights into the human experience. The bridge between objects and time is a concept that delves into the relationship between material entities and the temporal dimension. How those objects merge and exist within the framework of time oscillates between the existence of the natural world and how we interpret, utilize, ingest and embrace/reject it. If these interlocking elements of the physical world around us and the objects it produces accumulate what we know as the macrocosm, its excavation leaves us with wonder. 

Through metaphor and symbolism, the themes in Making Time revolve around ideas of ownership, transcendence, entropy and perception. By using the earth as a starting point for understanding an object's place within the structure of time, the positive and negative elements of human interference in our complex ecosystem are revealed. In elevating these objects with their alchemic approaches, the artists here individually decipher the macrocosm through the act of slowing time and illuminating the microcosms that surround us.