Please join us for the opening reception of What a Time to Be Alive, selected works from Tyler's 2023 MFA Graduates.

The featured artists explore a wide range of aesthetic and conceptual concerns, often rooted in a desire to feel oneself in time, to grasp (impossibly) the present. An artwork may be a dance with conventional understandings of time; a material layering of cultural, familial and personal histories or a proposal for altered futures. Such proposals hope for a slower future, one built on closer attention, rest and repair. Some works are made to last, while others never achieve a stable form, offering flux or decay as part of their content. To imbue, to embed, to remember the present — artists as sentinels of sensorial experience.

Atelier Art Gallery, 1301 N 31st St Suite 2, Philadelphia, PA 19121

Opening Reception: Friday, May 12, 5-8p.m.