Time is not just a valuable commodity, but also the inspiration behind a brand new art exhibit. Lehman College Art Gallery hosted the opening reception for ‘TICK-TOCK: Time in Contemporary Art’ on Wednesday, February 28. The exhibit features over a dozen artists who illuminate time’s impact through a wide array of media displaying the traditional and contemporary tools humankind uses to chart time such as clocks, calendars, sundials, hourglasses, digital stopwatches and time-elapsed videos.
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One interesting time-centric piece on display was crafted from different colored flip flops.
Photo by Miriam Quin
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Artist Karen Tompkins with her larger-than-life honeycomb-like clock masterpiece.
Photo by Miriam Quin
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(l-r) Bartholomew F. Bland, MaryAnn Siano and Dante R. Albertie had the time of their lives.
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Bobby Gonzalez admired a steampunk-inspired clock displayed at the gallery.
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Guests watched the sands of time pass them by in Alexandra Forsyth Martinez’s hourglass.
Photo by Miriam Quin