Description

Please join us at the renowned First National Bank Exhibition Hall for the Opening Reception of This Moment Without Time, an exhibition featuring the ceramics of local artist Isabella Maroon and paintings of Nicole Renee Ryan. 

Who we are and what we value are heavily shaped by the places we inhabit, the experiences we carry, and the connections we form. As time passes, moments begin to blur, and what we believe to be true can become uncertain: Did that conversation really happen? Did I really see that place? In recalling the past, we unconsciously reconstruct it, filling in foggy gaps and altering details until memory becomes something between recollection and invention. A single place, memory, or lifetime can expand into infinite possibilities. In this space between what happened and what we remember, perception becomes fluid, time becomes irrelevant, and place becomes imagined. 

Nicole Renee Ryan’s landscape paintings of misremembered places, alongside Isabella Maroon’s fragmented and reassembled ceramics, inhabit this dissonant space between familiarity and uncertainty. Through careful processes of making and reimagining, both artists transform fragments of experience into environments that feel at once remembered and invented. They create a world that feels strangely familiar -- one that asks us to consider how we remember, what we forget, and how much of what we know is shaped by what we imagine.

Preview the show here:

https://markrengersgallery.com/show/mark-rengers-gallery-this-moment-without-time

Proceeds go to the Youth Arts Possibilities Program (YAPP). YAPP is in collaboration with Sweetwater Center for the Arts and is sponsored by First National Bank.