Divot by Matt Connors, 2012
I’m getting excited about my trip to New York at the end of next month. I’m going to be meeting up with some of my favorite creative women for a few days in the city – exploring, taking in art, having leisurely meals and meaningful conversations, and lots of hugs. I can’t wait.
Although I’ll miss this exhibition, I wanted to share it here and some of the thoughts around creating it. The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World is about timelessness. The work of the 17 contemporary painters featured in this show can’t be tied to any particular time period. When we look at it, we can’t really identify when it was created.
Charline von Heyl. Carlotta. 2013
According to the description of the exhibition from MoMA, “this phenomenon in culture was first identified by the science fiction writer William Gibson, who used the term ‘a-temporality’ to describe a cultural product of our moment that paradoxically doesn’t represent, through style, through content, or through medium, the time from which it comes.”
Amy Sillman. Untitled (Head). 2014
Due in part to the massive amount of information that we literally have at the tips of our fingers these days, it makes it easy to learn and borrow from earlier artistic periods, and even mashup different styles in a single art piece, to create work that transcends artistic era.
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World will run through April 5th at the Museum of Modern Art .