September 9 - October 23, 1999
Chronologies focuses on contemporary works which give visual form to the passage and measure of time. The exhibition will include sculpture, installation, works on paper, photographs, performance and video -- works exploring the artist's time (time needed to produce the artwork) and the spectator's time (time needed to view or appreciate the artwork) -- and in the case of performance art their intersection in a sort of collaborative space.
Included are a video by Oliver Herring, which is a metaphor for artmaking in stop-action animation; Dexter Buell's exploration of geologic time through his photographs of models depicting the creation of land forms, occurring over millions of years; David Nyzio's photographic images created by the action of bacteria growing on photo-sensitized glass surfaces. Other artists include: Hildur Bjarnadóttir, Brainard Carey, Anna Theresa Peña, Laura McCallum and William Schuck.
Artists in this exhibition were selected from the Rotunda Gallery's Slide Registry, a cross-indexed, computer-accessed database, containing slides and resumes of over 850 Brooklyn-affiliated artists.