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Time Passes, Time Passes By (2360 days), installation view. Photo: author
The art of Alexandra Robinson, although evoking unsettling school memories of multiple-choice exams, is all about making people aware of time.
At the Urban Culture Project’s Project Space, in an exhibit called “Time Passes, Time Passes By,” five of Robinson’s silkscreen and gouache on paper works translate time into tiny, imperfect squares—some filled in, some not—arranged in horizontal and rectangular grids. It’s not exactly clear what events are being charted, so viewers of this show are given wide berth to free associate.
“First of the Month” might refer to the time rent is due. It might just as easily refer to someone’s menstrual cycle. Either way, it’s beautiful in its simplicity. The hundreds of little squares left blank appear to indicate uneventful moments. And the colored squares, distributed evenly, designate moments of significance.
Also included is an installation that purportedly represents every “normal” and “important” day in the life of the gallery. “Time Passes, Time Passes By (2360 days)” is an ambitious and spellbinding work in which a chaotic array of white masonite cubes of various sizes has taken over nearly half the space.
In her artist statement, Robinson writes that time is a “tangible object rather than an abstraction.” This exhibit gives a sort of gravity to time by making it visible and physical while leaving it looking abstract.
Time Passes, Time Passes By
June 19-August 8
For more info:
Project Space
21 E. 12th St., Kansas City, MO
(816) 221-5115
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