December 12, 2006 - January 5, 2007

Time Flies

Jean Alexander Frater (Chicago, IL)

Part of SPACElab

TIme is often represented by a line: A timeline, marking specific moments which are spatially relative, and usually a notation of some value accompanies each point. The entire line often delineates a progression, located within a subject matter, wherein we can place ourselves and at times think about the future. It is a representation of an ongoing series of moments or points, which leap gaps of massive conceptual shifts, that perhaps denied conventional wisdom of the time. These gaps are bridged by one thin and entirely antithetical line, which carries our eyes quickly and passively over the web of possibilities, the constellation of trajectories, to the next moment and so on again. Suggesting a simple "First this, then that." Once it has begun it necessarily continues as the crow flies.

In the works presented: The timeline, which is already an oversimplified signifier or representation of the passage of time. Taking the point as one unique form, Points, and the line as another, Horizon 1 and 2. Combined here, not on the same plane, but within a time concept context.

-Mixed-media installation with photographs

About the Artist

Jean Alexander Frater

Frater graduated with a BA in Philosophy from the University of Dayton and then went on to receive her MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio; SpaceCamp MicroGallery, Indianapolis, IN; Office Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada; and Gallery C... go to artist page

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