Gathered in the Stretching Now exhibition

March 15-April 21, 2024.

Opening Friday, March 15th.

“Gathered in the Stretching Now” prompts an elongated sense of our present “now”, featuring work by Jenn Cacciola, Jennifer Tazewell Mawby, Taya Naumovich, Dana O’Malley, and SK Reed. Here, time becomes a malleable, textured, striated, and translucent material, used to encourage a reorientation of our personal sense of history, future, and the space between. Methods developed by The Long Now Foundation serve as a unifying framework among the artists. The Long Now is “the recognition that the precise moment you’re in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes…” and as an effect, the foundation hopes to “foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years” (Brian Eno). Gathered in the Stretching Now includes large-scale installation, drawing, assemblage, painting, and mixed-media sculpture.

In 2021, The five artists formed Peer 2 Peer (P2P), a curatorial collective that seeks to ground one another and encourage slower looking, within an often dizzying art world. The group meets regularly online to offer feedback and community with the twofold goal of reciprocally strengthening one another’s practices and acknowledging the whole personhood of each artist. ”